Reports that Matter

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

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Mr Kelvin MacKenzie: • 33/3-33/13, on the desire and motivation of politicians to meet tabloid newspaper editors, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Transcript-of- Morning-Hearing-9-January-2012.pdf

The Right Honourable Sir John Major • contact with the press, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/ Exhibit-SJM-1.pdf • turning down media hospitality and discouraging his ministers from doing so, http://www. levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Exhibit-SJM-3.pdf • lunch for editors, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/ Exhibit-SJM-4.pdf • para 27, on the excessive proximity between press and politicians and the resulting damage, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Witness- Statement-of-Sir-John-Major.pdf • 14/6-14/16, overly close relations prevent the press from holding government to account, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Transcript-of-Morning- Hearing-12-June-2012.pdf

The Right Honourable Lord Mandelson • p6, on the closening relationship between successive prime ministers Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron respectively with Rupert Murdoch, http://www.levesoninquiry. org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Witness-Statement-of-Lord-Mandelson.pdf • 55/7-62/14, 79/10-79/11, on News International's and especially Rebekah Brooks' approach, especially assiduously keeping in touch; Gordon Brown's friendship with Rupert Murdoch, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Transcript- of-Afternoon-Hearing-21-May-20121.pdf • p5, on media demands taking time from policy formulation and discussion, http:// www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Witness-Statement-of-Lord- Mandelson.pdf • 86/13-87/18, on New Labour's excessively media centric approach during its early years in government, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/ Transcript-of-Afternoon-Hearing-21-May-20121.pdf

Mr Andrew Marr: • pp4-5, on the potential dangers of friendships between politicians and journalists, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Witness-Statement-of- Andrew-Marr.pdf • p7, on the self defeating amount of energy spent on presentation, http://www. levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Witness-Statement-of-Andrew- Marr.pdf • 98/3-98/21, on the obsessive interest in headlines, media management and PR, http:// www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Transcript-of-Morning- Hearing-23-May-2012.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

The Right Honourable Ed Miliband MP: • list of media contact, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/

Exhibit-EM-1.pdf • 31/16-31/21, on the "permanent campaign", http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wpcontent/uploads/2012/06/Transcript-of-Afternoon-Hearing-12-June-2012.pdf

Mr Dominic Mohan: • 57/23-58/2, on the frequency of his contact with the Prime Minister, http://www.

levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Transcript-of-Afternoon-Hearing-9-January-2012.pdf

Mr Piers Morgan: • 101/17-104/12, on his own very frequent contact with Tony Blair and on Tony Blair's early interactions with Rupert Murdoch, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/ uploads/2011/12/Transcript-of-Afternoon-Hearing-20-December-2011.pdf

Mr James Murdoch: • para 9.6 & JRJM9, list of meetings and social events with UK prime ministers, http:// www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Witness-Statement-of-James-Rupert-Jacob-Murdoch.pdf-; http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/

2012/04/Exhibit-JRJM-9.pdf • para 9.6 & JRJM9, list of meetings and social events with UK prime ministers, http:// www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Witness-Statement-of-James-Rupert-Jacob-Murdoch.pdf; http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/

2012/04/Exhibit-JRJM-9.pdf • 56/8-69/14, his access to and contact with Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and David Cameron, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Transcript-of-Morning-Hearing-24-April-2012.pdf • 83/16-85/20, on politicians' perception that the endorsement of a newspaper is very important and their interest in whom a newspaper is going to endorse politically, http:// www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Transcript-of-Morning-Hearing-24-April-2012.pdf

Mr Rupert Murdoch: • paras 99-100, on Tony Blair's conversation with Mr Prodi about Mediaset, http://www.

levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Witness-Statement-of-Keith-Rupert-Murdoch2.pdf

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