Morning Report – July 14th

After the breakneck speed at which events have moved over the last week – phone hacking into NotW closure into BSkyB – is today the day we get to catch our breath and see how far things have gone? Nick Clegg is speaking this morning and has said Rupert Murdoch must face MPs. Have we now found, after a year of the two men banging heads, an issue that Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband can work together on? Watch this space…

As for Miliband himself, Mehdi Hasan from the New Statesman (and of course, recent Miliband biographer) says that the events of the past week have been the Labour leader’s “chrysalis” moment. He’s certainly looking like a different leader to the much disparaged one we saw a few weeks ago.

If someone was drawing up a list of things Rupert Murdoch doesn’t need right now, don’t you think praise from Conrad Black would be near the top? The disgraced former owner of the Telegraph has written for the FT today, and says that Murdoch is a “great, bad man”. What a character reference eh?

And elsewhere, in non-News International news, more elderly care homes are set to close. And what is the government doing about that? That’s a very good question…