Reports that Matter

An Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press

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The Right Honourable Nick Clegg MP: • list of meetings and events, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/ 2012/06/Exhibit-NC-1.pdf • paras 36-43, on his contact with figures in the media, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/ wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Witness-Statement-of-Nick-Clegg-MP2.pdf • 21/20-25/1, 32/4-33/8, on his contact with figures in the media, http://www. levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Transcript-of-Morning-Hearing-13- June-2012.pdf • para 19, politicians must never again develop the dependency relationships of the past decades, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Witness- Statement-of-Nick-Clegg-MP2.pdf • 47/2-47/10, on the privileged access of journalists to politicians http://www.levesoninquiry. org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Transcript-of-Morning-Hearing-13-June-2012.pdf • para 10, on the need for the media and politicians to build relationships but to avoid mutual dependency, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/ Witness-Statement-of-Nick-Clegg-MP2.pdf • 98/13-99/9, on the consequences of the excessive proximity between press and politician (and press and the police): a feeling that the press could do what it liked, http://www. levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Transcript-of-Morning-Hearing-13- June-2012.pdf • 25/8-26/16, on the context of intimacy between the press (editors and proprietors) and politicians, and the need for distance, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/ uploads/2012/06/Transcript-of-Morning-Hearing-13-June-2012.pdf

Mr Paul Dacre: • 111/10-120/9, access to Mr Straw and Mr Brown in relation to the proposed amendments to s55 Data Protection Act 1998 and other issues of concern to him, http://www. levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Transcript-of-Afternoon-Hearing-6- February-20121.pdf

Mr Tony Gallagher: • 83/10-84/7, on maintaining distance, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/ uploads/2012/01/Transcript-of-Afternoon-Hearing-10-January-2012.pdf

The Right Honourable Michael Gove MP: • table of meetings with media organisations, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp- content/uploads/2012/05/Exhibit-MG5.pdf

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Appendix 5 | Evidence Relevant to the Generic Conclusions on the Relationship Between Politicians and the Press: Part I Chapter 8

Mr James Harding: • 91/1-92/5, on his social and semi-social contacts with politicians, and meetings with the Prime Minister, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/

Transcript-of-Morning-Hearing-17-January-2012.pdf • p1, letter supplementing and correcting his evidence as to the occasions on which he had met politicians with either Rupert or James Murdoch, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/ wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Letter-to-the-Inquiry-from-James-Harding.pdf • 110/21-110/24, on the dangers of getting too close, in particular the historical example of politicians getting too close to a newspaper: The Times' support for appeasement, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Transcript-of-Morning-Hearing-17-January-2012.pdf

The Right Honourable Jeremy Hunt MP: • table of meetings with media organisations, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wpcontent/uploads/2012/05/JH-Annex-B-MOD300005624.pdf

Mr Evgeny Lebedev: • 19/5-21/4, on the extent of his contact with Prime Ministers, http://www.levesoninquiry.

org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Transcript-of-Afternoon-Hearing-23-April-2012.pdf • pp3-4, his contact with politicians, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/ uploads/2012/04/Witness-Statement-of-Evgeny-Lebedev.pdf • 35/7-35/21, on politicians leaking information and speaking off the record, http://www.

levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Transcript-of-Afternoon-Hearing23-April-2012.pdf

Mr John Lloyd: • para 9, on contacts between journalists and politicians, especially the attitude of senior politicians to media proprietors, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/ uploads/2012/06/Witness-Statement-of-John-Lloyd.pdf • 3/22-8/4, on the nature of the relationship between press and politicians in other countries and compared to the UK, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/ uploads/2012/06/Transcript-of-Morning-Hearing-26-June-2012.pdf • 23/24-27/10, on the relationship between the press and politicians, especially "feeding the beast", New Labour's constant proactivity and more widely the "extremely attentive"

attitude of politicians to the media, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/ uploads/2012/06/Transcript-of-Morning-Hearing-26-June-2012.pdf

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