12th July, 2011, 12:14 pm

Has anyone seen the Tory Press office?

Mark Ferguson

As a side note to all of the coverage of the collapse of the News of the World and the phone hacking scandal, has anyone else noticed how quiet the Tory Press Office have been?

The @ToryPressHQ Twitter account – which is normally swift to comment on any and every political issue going – has now been dormant for four days.

Why are they so quiet? It’s not like there’s no news about…

Mark Ferguson

Mark Ferguson is the Labour MP for Gateshead Central and Whickham, and was the editor of LabourList from 2010 to 2015.

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