Frederic Michel

Salmond to face questions over Murdoch relationship at Leveson

Saturday 9 June 2012

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and First Minister Alex Salmond are to be quizzed about their relationships with the Murdoch empire at the Leveson Inquiry into phone hacking next week.

Hunt sent memo backing bid for BSkyB

Friday 25 May 2012

Jeremy Hunt backed Rupert Murdoch's controversial BSkyB bid in a memo to David Cameron just weeks before he was put in charge of the deal, it emerged yesterday.

Call for Salmond adviser to give evidence under oath

Tuesday 1 May 2012

Labour has called for Alex Salmond's senior adviser to join him in giving evidence under oath to the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics.

Sturgeon: 'No link' between SNP backing of BSkyB bid and Sun support

Friday 27 April 2012

Scotland's Deputy First Minister has said there was "emphatically and unequivocally" no link between Alex Salmond's discussions with News Corporation over proposals to take over BSkyB, and the Scottish Sun newspaper's decision to back the SNP.

No votes in Salmond flirting with the Murdoch mafia

Thursday 26 April 2012

Given the trouble they cause, you might wonder why senior politicians bother employing special advisers, or "spads" to use the shorthand.