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April 26, 2012 5:41 pm

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Harriet Harman has just sent the following letter to Jeremy Hunt:

Dear Jeremy,

I am writing to ask you to publish the following:

All the text messages, emails from both official and personal accounts, and records of phone calls between yourself and Adam Smith relating to the News Corporation bid for BSkyB.

All of the text messages, emails from both official and personal accounts, and records of phone calls between Adam Smith and Frederic Michel and any other representatives of News Corporation relating to the BSkyB bid.

Yours sincerely,


Harriet

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  • ThePurpleBooker

    Jeremy Hunt has no choice to resign. All he is doing is trying to save his skin so that he can contest the Tory leadership in the future, but he has got to recognize that what he has done is break the ministerial code, back the Murdoch’s bid rather than judge it, he has effectively broken the law and he appointed his special adviser specifically to be a back channel between him and the Murdochs. As for Cameron, we now that he was lying in July when he said he had no meetings with Rebekah Brooks about the BSkyB bid.
    When two cabinet ministers are having to fight to save their political lives in one week, that is when you know that the government is in trouble.

  • AlanGiles
    • treborc1

       I do think he will go, but not for long and not to far, he’ll be like Mandy once the dust settles he’ll be back or like Blunkett. You have to smile mind you of labour writing about removing Ministers tit for tat.

  • https://mikestallard.virtualgallery.com/ Mike Stallard

    What a brilliant wheeze!
    I do hope that Ms Harman reciprocates with a specimen herself.

  • TomFairfax

     Certainly worth asking for these, but people know these can be asked for. So someone prepared to set up a wet behind the ears youth as unofficial information conduit is unlikely to have made the mistake being sought for in emails and texts.

    Ask for any instant messenger/communicator messages to be retrieved and supplied and you might find something they didn’t expect to be seen again.

  • GuyM

    I wonder if Labour will be providing all texts and emails between Blair, Brown, Milliband and any other cabinet members with anyone senior at News International?

    Somehow I think not…….

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