UK MPs vote down demand on Hunt case

Despite Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s decision that Liberal Democrat MPs would abstain, Conservatives easily saw off the challenge by a majority of 290 to 252. The Liberal Democrats refused to support David Cameron, the Prime Minister, and the head the Tories.

The vote came after David Cameron told MPs that his adviser, Sir Alex Allan, had written to him to say that he could not “usefully add to the facts” in the Hunt case uncovered by the Leveson Inquiry into media standards.

But Labour dismissed Cameron’s comments as an ineffective “smokescreen” and said that the Prime Minister’s judgment in appointing Hunt to a quasi-judicial role in the BSkyB bid was in question.

The Lib Dems have had an uneasy relationship with their coalition partners ever since they joined forces in 2010 after a ‘Hung Parliament’ was produced in the general elections.

The Lib Dems demanded that Cameron order an inquiry into the actions of the Jeremy Hunt.

Hunt is one of many conspiracies relating to last July’s phone-hacking scandal that has developed into a dramatic political storm, due to the influences that the Murdoch Empire has in the UK government.

The fact that the Lib Dems are less involved in the Murdoch scandal is partly because they were never previously in power, resulting in less media attraction.

Don Foster, a Lib Dem member of parliament told Reuters “We are not saying Hunt is guilty of anything, but we do say questions remain”.

Support for the Liberal Democrats has slumped by a large margin as they were forced to go along with unpopular policies issued by the Conservatives. The Lib Dems fear that they will face a catastrophic result in the next elections in 2015.

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