Interesting debate, now winding down.
Ed Milliband is getting really irritating by constantly bring up Coulson. He is not the story or even all that interesting. (He may well be one of many people who may end up in jail.) The issues are media and Police malpractice and lawbreaking. Plus a huge apparent coverup by the Murdochs.
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Also mentioned today, was that the then Labour Attorney General in 2005/06 was responsible for the "downsized" scoping of the original Police inquiry. (Mulcair had at least 3500 phone hack victims, but only phone hacking of the Royal family and staff in the Royal household were to be investigated.)
If this is so, then it is not the Police who are responsible for things going wrong at the start of all this mess. It was "Teflon Tony" and his chief Law guy.
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Parliament is now in recess for six weeks, so a lot of the political noise will cease on the story.
The two Leveson Public Inquiries will be somewhat constrained by the two Police investigations and any subsequent prosecutions. The Police investigations may take years and the scope of the Leveson Inquiries are huge will take years themselves. This is a shame but inevitable given the numbers, size and complexity of all the investigations involved.
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"We are gonna need a bigger Boat Thread.")
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Members of the Leveson Inquiry Panel announced today.
* Shami Chakrabarti, director of human rights group Liberty
* George Jones, former Daily Telegraph political editor
* Sir David Bell, former chairman of the Financial Times
* Elinor Goodman, former Channel 4 political editor
* Lord David Currie, former chairman of Ofcom
* Sir Paul Scott-Lee, former West Midlands chief constable
BBC News - Cameron widens remit of Leveson probe
Any Tory leadership has to respect the power of the 22-committee. No doubt there.
Absolutely, the Tories have always been rather ruthless at riding themselves of leader when things look like they may loose the next election. The best example was that Maggie Thatcher got booted out since the backbench committee "the 1922" didn't like their chances in the forthcomming election.