Diary – 5 February 2011

Alastair Campbell opens his Diary

You may remember Ruth Turner, the Blair aide woken at dawn as ‘Yates of the Yard’ pursued allegations from the SNP about so-called cash for honours. How very different from YotY’s handling of phone-hacking. The News of the World hack Paul McMullan told me he was asked three times to visit the police to be interviewed under caution. Three times he refused. So the police ‘eliminated me from their inquiries’. Speaking to London Assembly members, YotY said the police could not be expected to chase every piece of gossip, rumour and innuendo  — er, what was ‘cash for honours’? The police have launched a new investigation into new evidence which didn’t emerge (allegedly) during the previous thorough (allegedly) investigations by them and News Corporation. But surely there has to be a separate investigation into YotY’s investigation, and the cosy links between cops and hacks.

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