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malaise

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4. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
Thu Jun 14, 2012, 09:30 AM
Jun 2012

2.26pm: Cameron says he does not recall any knowledge of the BSkyB bid before it was publicly announced.

Jeremy Hunt sent Cameron four notes on the BSkyB bid, the inquiry hears.

2.25pm: Cameron says he discussed the merger with the chancellor George Osborne on the day Vince Cable was stripped of responsibility for the role, but cannot recall other conversations. However, they talk about lots of things so it is possible, he adds.

2.23pm: Cameron is asked about the BSkyB bid.

"I don't think you should stand in the way of coporate moves unless there's a public interest against it," he says.

He acknowledges that the merger was a "political hot potato" and says "half of the Tory press was against it".

2.18pm: Cameron says he does not recall talking to Rebekah Brooks about phone hacking in December 2010.

It took the "cataclysmic revelations" of the Guardian's Milly Dowler story in July 2011 for the "whole thing to be opened up," he adds

2.17pm: Cameron says he had several conversations with Coulson about his resignation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/14/david-cameron-leveson-inquiry-live

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