UK minister under pressure to resign

April 26th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Emails released by News Corporation to the Leveson Inquiry on the culture, practice and ethics of the press showed the involvement of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) in an £8bn takeover bid of the broadcasting giant BSkyB.

Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch, whose 168-year-old newspaper News of the World was closed last July in Britain, appeared before London’s High Court on Wednesday as the inquiry into the British press standards is now shifting its focus to the ties between Britain’s press and politicians.

Calling on Jeremy Hunt to resign, shadow culture secretary Harriet Harman said he had fallen “woefully short” of expectations and called for him to publish emails he exchanged with his special adviser Adam Smith, who resigned yesterday in relation to the News Corporation bid for BskyB.

Moreover, speaking on Radio 4’s Today programme, Labour leader Ed Miliband said it “beggars belief” that Hunt is still in his job and it was “incredible” he hadn’t resigned after revelations on Tuesday that Hunt’s adviser had allegedly passed sensitive information to a senior News Corporation lobbyist.

“Why is Jeremy Hunt still in his job? Because David Cameron has questions to answer, and Jeremy Hunt is, if you like, acting as a firewall. And if he goes the questions will then move to David Cameron’s conversations with Rebekah Brooks, with James Murdoch and others,” Miliband added.

However, the British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday said he gave his “full support” to his culture minister, and ruled out a separate probe into the minister’s contacts with News Corporation.

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