APPENDICES

APPENDICES

Sir John Major: • para 32, that party political appointees as press secretaries and as special advisers have meant that the word of the government spokesman is less likely to be accepted as dispassionate and accurate, and creates an invidious position if the person returns to journalism having had access to sensitive material, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/ wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Witness-Statement-of-Sir-John-Major.pdf • 18/9-20/13, that making political appointments to government communications was a retrograde step, and that the politicisation of government information services meant the news is not presented accurately and fairly, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp- content/uploads/2012/06/Transcript-of-Morning-Hearing-12-June-2012.pdf

Lord Mandelson: • pp3 and 4, in an extract from The Blair Revolution Revisited, that much of what government does is dismissed as spin, that ministers are disbelieved and government as a whole is mistrusted; that policies should not be announced as if driven by headlines, re-announcing should not happen, government should be scrupulous with the facts and ministers should be more open and directly engage with all the media rather than a selection, http://www. levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Lord-Mandelson-Annex-1.pdf • 98/1-102/2, about the relationship between the government and the media, describing the relationships of specific governments with the media, that the demands and scepticism of the press have become greater, and that the tension in the relationship became unbearable; that the losers in the breakdown of the relationship are the public, who do not know who or what to believe and who are misguided by the way news or political information is presented, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/ uploads/2012/05/Transcript-of-Morning-Hearing-21-May-2012.pdf • Lord Mandelson 87/22-89/21, referring to his book The Blair Revolution Revisited, that the overuse and misuse of media skills by the New Labour government had harmed the character of the government, and that spin in the eyes of the media became anything that a minister or someone working for a minister said, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp- content/uploads/2012/05/Transcript-of-Afternoon-Hearing-21-May-20121.pdf

Ed Miliband MP: • p4, that trust in media and politicians has been harmed by revelations of relationships between some representatives of the media and politicians, http://www.levesoninquiry. org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Witness-Statement-of-Ed-Miliband.pdf

Peter Oborne: • para 6, that the invisible connection between politicians and the media has done harm to the public interest, and that a great deal of 'news' has been a manifestation of manipulative populism – i.e. a manifestation of power, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/ uploads/2012/05/Witness-Statement-of-Peter-Oborne.pdf • 6/16-7/19, that government communications under New Labour constituted a new epistemology where truth was defined as that which served the purposes of the government or the party in power, and that denials or assertions were an instrument of government rather than of the truth; and at 39/15-40/25, that having a political figure deliver briefings to the lobby is a hazard, and that a civil servant should brief on behalf of the government, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/ Transcript-of-Morning-Hearing-17-May-2012.pdf

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

¶Lord O'Donnell: • at para 32, that the Order in Council used by the Blair government created the impression of politicisation in Downing Street communications and that it is perception that is the critical test in propriety and ethics, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/ uploads/2012/05/Witness-Statement-of-Lord-ODonnell.pdf • 77/18-82/8, that it is important that the Prime Minister's official spokesman is a civil servant with absolute credibility, and that there is a weakness in the special adviser system with regards to managerial responsibility, and that ministers should be clear about what their special advisers should be doing in relation to the media, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.

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¶Jack Straw MP: • 2/9-2/24, that politicians getting too close to the press undermine their own integrity, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Transcript-of-Morning-Hearing-16-May-2012.pdf

¶Neil Wallis: • pp3-4, that government and political party PR machines do not give the public the rounded impression of elected politicians that they need, that official PR can be described as propaganda, http://www.levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Thirdwitness-statement-of-Neil-Wallis-signed-13.06.12.pdf

¶Appendix 6 Bibliography Reports Australian Government, Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Media and Media Regulation, (Canberra, Australian Government, 2012) Australian Government, Convergence Review, Final Report, (Canberra, Australian Government, 2012) Department of National Heritage, Review of Press Self-Regulation, (London, HMSO, 1993) Great Britain, Report on the British Press, (London, PEP, 1938) Great Britain, Royal Commission on the Press, 1947-1949: Report, (London, HMSO, 1949) Great Britain, Royal Commission on the Press 1961-1962: Report, (London, HMSO, 1962) Great Britain, The Report of the Committee on Privacy, (London, HMSO, 1972) Great Britain, Royal Commission on the Press: Final Report, (London, HMSO, 1977) Home Office, The Report of the Committee on Privacy and Related Matters, (London, HMSO, 1990) Information Commissioner's Office, What Price Privacy Now?, (Wilmslow, Information Commissioner's Office, 2006) Information Commissioner's Office, What Price Privacy?, (Wilmslow, Information Commissioner's Office, 2006) The Law Commission, The News Media Meets 'New Media': Rights, Responsibilities and Regulation in the Digital Age, (Wellington, the Law Commission, 2011)

¶Books and other publications Barendt, E, Freedom of Speech, (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007) Bingham, A, 'Drinking in the Last Chance Saloon: The British press and the crisis of self- regulation, 1989-95' in Media History 13 (1) (2007) Bingham, T, The Rule of Law (London, Penguin, 2010) Blair, T, A Journey, (London, Hutchinson, 2010) Burden, P, News of the World, Fake Sheikhs and Royal Trappings, (London, Eye Books, 2008) Campbell, A, Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power 1994-1997, (London, Hutchinson, 2010) Campbell, A, Diaries Volume Two: The Power and the People, (London, Hutchinson, 2011)