APPENDICES

APPENDICES

or by winning favour from the press; at 21/21-22/5, at 40/1-40/25, that the previous government, with 'a certain lack of subtlety', had appointed Paul Dacre to consider the 30 year rule for the disclosure of documents; at 55/11-56/19, that politicians have responded to tabloid newspaper campaigns with criminal justice legislation; at 57/19- 58/12, that politicians' responses to calls by certain newspapers for tougher sentences has (in his opinion) been detrimental, in that it has increased the prison population and overcrowding and has worsened reoffending, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp- content/uploads/2012/05/Transcript-of-Afternoon-Hearing-30-May-2012.pdf • 3/21-4/16, that the previous government's announcement before the election that they would only act on Lord Justice Jackson's recommendations in the areas of privacy and defamation was a way to win favour with the media; at 42/12-43/5, that he would expect the newspapers to win when it came to lobbying Parliament, http://www.levesoninquiry. org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Transcript-of-Afternoon-Hearing-30-May-2012.pdf

Nick Clegg MP: • 6/12-8/18, on political clientism; 93/6-95/1, that politicians don't need to or shouldn't pander to press whims, and that an assertion of the right of politicians to make decisions in their own right would be helpful, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/ uploads/2012/06/Transcript-of-Morning-Hearing-13-June-2012.pdf • paras 5-8, on media influence over government policy and the responsibility of politicians to resist undue media pressure, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/ uploads/2012/06/Witness-Statement-of-Nick-Clegg-MP2.pdf • paras 62-64, describing the influence of media campaigns, the influence of media reaction on the content and timing of government announcements, and the risk of government being driven by press reaction; 67-70, that the press can have a censoring effect on politicians; 75, that media reaction is taken into account in public appointments and resignations, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Witness- Statement-of-Nick-Clegg-MP2.pdf • 2/13-3/12, on media influence over government policy; 20/22-21/10, on the power of a press campaign and the temptation of politicians to respond positively to campaigns in order to communicate themselves positively to the public, http://www.levesoninquiry. org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Transcript-of-Morning-Hearing-13-June-2012.pdf • paras 12-15, that the media have a unique amount of contact with the politicians that they lobby, that there is a risk of inappropriate relationships where the goodwill and opinion of the media is offered to politicians, and that the media has a direct route to influence public opinion on matters to do with its own sector, and that perceptions of media influence over policy has arisen in the past; at paras 36-43, describing contact with the media, and that media and commercial issues did arise during that contact; at paras 57-58, referencing examples of media lobbying on media policies; at paras 71-72, that newspapers can be one of the most powerful lobbying machines and are able to meet politicians without officials being present, and that there is a danger that lobbyists for the media have more power over politicians that other lobbyists, http://www.levesoninquiry. org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Witness-Statement-of-Nick-Clegg-MP2.pdf • 10/1-10/23, that media are often lobbyists in their own commercial interests and that the press are able to be judge and jury in their own affairs; at 31/15-31/25, that in discussions with editors and proprietors media and commercial issues have arisen, http://www. levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Transcript-of-Morning-Hearing-13- June-2012.pdf

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

¶Michael Gove MP: • 2/12-2/24, that some politicians will regard their relationship with journalists as transactional, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/

¶Transcript-of-Afternoon-Hearing-29-May-2012.pdf • 33/3-33/10, that some politicians change policies to win good headlines, http://www.

¶levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Transcript-of-Afternoon-Hearing29-May-2012.pdf • 10/1-10/14, that some politicians have bent to the will of newspaper proprietors in the political sphere; at 16/2-16/13, that newspaper proprietors can influence politicians in a way that is unethical or contrary to the public interest, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.

¶uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Transcript-of-Afternoon-Hearing-29-May-2012.pdf

¶Jeremy Hunt MP: • 91/25-93/14, on giving favoured journalists exclusive stories in the hope of positive coverage, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Transcriptof-Morning-Hearing-31-May-2012.pdf

¶John Lloyd: • at paras 10-12, describing areas of media influence over political policy and areas of policy that impact on the media, and saying that it is observed and reported that the media's influence over public opinion gives them an edge when lobbying or negotiating with politicians; at para 22, that the media use the power their audience gives them to persuade politicians not to damage their interests, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/ wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Witness-Statement-of-John-Lloyd.pdf

¶Sir John Major: • paras 12, on politicians trading leaks or stories that denigrate colleagues for favourable coverage; 50, on hostile briefing and leaking of the Framework Agreement with the Irish

¶Government in 1995, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/

¶Witness-Statement-of-Sir-John-Major.pdf • on an example of untrue stories being given to the media for party political advantage, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Second-Witness-Statement-of-Sir-John-Major.pdf • 16/14-17/6, on stories being leaked by politicians to the press maliciously, in order to denigrate other politicians; 17/18-18/8, on politicians leaking private discussion of policy in order to gain advantage, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/ uploads/2012/06/Transcript-of-Morning-Hearing-12-June-2012.pdf • 88/4-91/2, on politicians or their advisors briefing the press with untrue stories, http:// www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Transcript-of-Morning-Hearing-12-June-2012.pdf • paras 16, on political press secretaries managing news using favoured journalists and papers; 32, on party political press secretaries, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wpcontent/uploads/2012/06/Witness-Statement-of-Sir-John-Major.pdf • 17/25-18/8, on the leaking of private political discussions in government in order to seek press favour and damage opponents; 19/12-20/13, on spin and on journalists being