Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn at PMQsPMQs – Snap verdict 3.00pm BST John Whittingdale, the Conservative MP, is speaking now. He was chair of the Commons culture committee when the phone-hacking scandal emerged. And subsequently he became culture secretary.He says the newspaper industry has changed a great deal since the time of the scandal, and the Leveson inquiry. 2.51pm BST Byrne ends his speech by saying, after so many previous scandals, MPs should now know that it is always wrong to say that it is too expensive or that they are too busy to investigate things that go wrong. Continue reading…
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