Culture Secretary Matt Hancock
THE TORY government was accused of “capitulating to the press barons” today by once again ruling out the second part of the Leveson inquiry despite fresh allegations of criminal behaviour by the Sunday Times.
Shadow culture secretary Tom Watson raised an urgent question in the House of Commons in response to allegations made by former private investigator John Ford about work he did for the Sunday Times between 1995 and 2010.
Mr Ford claimed in an interview with the Guardian that he broke into then chancellor Gordon Brown’s bank and mortgage accounts and obtained secret polling memos from spin doctor Alastair Campbell’s bins.
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