Reports that Matter

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

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Alastair Campbell: • paras. 48, that some meetings were not put in the public domain; 53, on avoiding the front door when Rupert Murdoch visited Downing Street, http://www.levesoninquiry.org. uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Second-Witness-Statement-of-Alastair-Campbell.pdf • 49/3-49/19, on the use of the back door of Downing Street to avoid media attention, http:// www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Transcript-of-Afternoon- Hearing-14-May-2012.pdf • 57/24-61/6, on the risk of undue influence arising from disproportionate access and the need for transparency, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/ Transcript-of-Afternoon-Hearing-14-May-2012.pdf • pp19-20, on problems when lobby briefings were off the record, http://www. levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Witness-Statement-of-Alastair- Campbell.pdf • paras 19-22, on the problems with a closed lobby system, http://www.levesoninquiry.org. uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Second-Witness-Statement-of-Alastair-Campbell.pdf

Nick Clegg MP: • paras 36-43, that some interactions are not recorded; 48-50, on changes to recording meetings with senior media figures, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/ uploads/2012/06/Witness-Statement-of-Nick-Clegg-MP2.pdf • paras 12-16, 71, on the perception of undue influence when Rupert Murdoch acquired The Times and when New Labour opposed the retention of certain plurality controls in the mid-1990s, on the need for transparency, and on one-to-one meetings between the press and senior politicians, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/ Witness-Statement-of-Nick-Clegg-MP2.pdf • 8/19-9/25, increases in transparency and the link between transparency and accountability, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Transcript-of-Morning- Hearing-13-June-2012.pdf • para 11, on the need for transparency, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/ uploads/2012/06/Witness-Statement-of-Nick-Clegg-MP2.pdf

Michael Gove MP: • para 63, that it would be impractical to put all meetings with members of the media in the public domain, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/ Witness-Statement-of-Michael-Gove-MP.pdf

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Jeremy Hunt MP: • para 91, that there is a need for greater transparency on politicians' meetings with the media, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/JH-Witnessstatment-MOD300005597.pdf

John Lloyd: • para 16, on the risks of an overly close relationship between press and politician and of press power and the need for (inter alia) greater transparency, http://www.levesoninquiry.

org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Witness-Statement-of-John-Lloyd.pdf

Lord Mandelson: • pp15, on phone contact with Rupert Murdoch and the "sensitivity" of him being seen to use the front door of Downing Street; 17, on Rupert Murdoch being welcomed into

Downing Street and ministers having "a cosy fireside chat over mulled wine in Oxfordshire with their favourite mogul to discuss media regulation", http://www.levesoninquiry.org.

uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Witness-Statement-of-Lord-Mandelson.pdf • pp4, 5, on the consequences of spin and the need for an open relationship with the press, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Lord-Mandelson-Annex-1.pdf

Andrew Marr: • p7, on secrecy and self policing in the lobby system, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/ wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Witness-Statement-of-Andrew-Marr.pdf

Ed Miliband MP: • p6, that until recently interactions with senior media figures were considered private, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Witness-Statement-of-Ed-Miliband.pdf • p2, on the need for transparency, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/ uploads/2012/06/Witness-Statement-of-Ed-Miliband.pdf

Rupert Murdoch: • 13/5-13/14, on entering and leaving Downing Street by the back door, http://www.

levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Transcript-of-Afternoon-Hearing25-April-2012.pdf • 10/5-15/13, lunch with Mrs Thatcher at Chequers in January 1981, http://www.

levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Transcript-of-Morning-Hearing25-April-2012.pdf; http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/

Exhibit-KRM-14.pdf

Peter Oborne: • 47/9-47/24, on the lobby system and that political reporting has become "too inside", http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Transcript-of-Morning-Hearing-17-May-2012.pdf

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