Rebekah Brooks’s appearance before the Culture Media and Sport Committee was largely uneventful. Most of the questions addressed her editorship of the News of the World, a period about which she cannot openly speak at present because of the criminal proceedings brought against her.
However, Brooks was very keen to distance herself from David Cameron. Towards the end of the session, Tory MP Philip Davies asked of the stories circulating about her relationship with Cameron. She took the opportunity to deny them and set the record straight.
“I have not visited David Cameron at Downing Street since he has become Prime Minister,” she said and then added that she had visited Tony Blair and Gordon Brown there on numerous occasions. “When Gordon Brown was Chancellor and Prime Minister, I would’ve gone [there] maybe 6 times a year. With Blair…it was probably similar, though slightly more at the end [of his premiership]… I can give exact numbers if you like.”
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