Lord Justice Leveson
Ed Miliband shares concerns raised over the impartiality of Lord Justice Leveson, the judge appointed by David Cameron to head-up the phone-hacking public inquiry, after it emerged that the judge attended two parties at the London home of Elisabeth Murdoch. The inquiry is a key tool in the Tory spin operation to bury the phone-hacking scandal.
Further revelations that NI reporters subjected active police investigations and lawyers to illegal surveillance, coupled with concerns over the impartiality of the judge, are a blow to Tory plans to put a lid on the scandal, which has shaken confidence in the coalition government and exposed David Cameron’s weak leadership.
Earlier, Boris Johnson had denounced the phone-hacking scandal as “codswallop.” A view that he has since renounced in a cringe-worthy press conference over the resignation of the Met Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, and AC John Yates - two of the most senior police officers at the Met...read more.
