Jeremy Hunt has given an interview to House magazine this week which is well worth a read, not least because he deals rather graciously with the failure of his Liberal Democrat colleagues to support him when his back was against the wall over Murdoch. Even though Lib Dem ministers and MPs abstained on a vote calling for him to be referred to the independent adviser on ministers’ interests over his contact with News Corp during its takeover bid of BSkyB, the Culture Secretary says:
‘I never interpreted it as a personal thing. I think the Lib Dems wanted to make a political point that as a party that hadn’t been in power for many years, they had not got into the business of having to court media barons in the way that Labour and the Conservatives have and they wanted to find a way to make that point. That was really behind what they did.’
But it’s his words on G4S’ handling of the Olympic security that will make readers sit up.
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