Rolling coverage of all the day’s political developments as they happen,including David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn at the last PMQs of 2015 11.24am GMTJon Trickett, the shadow communities secretary and one of the few members of the shadow cabinet who backed Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership, or has been achieve in charge of the party’s local election campaign for 2016,the Daily Telegraph reports. 11.08am GMTThe Times (paywall) reports that the government has definitely decided not to move ahead with share two of the Leveson inquiry, the bit that was supposed to examine the specific phone-hacking allegations relating to the News of the World and other papers. As Elizabeth Rigby and Frances Gibb report:There will be no investigation into police corruption in the wake of the phone hacking scandal after the government quietly decided to shelve the second share of the Leveson inquiry.
Senior government and judicial sources told The Times that the second share of the inquiry into press and police corruption would never see the light of day amid limited political appetite for another lengthy and expensive judicial inquiry into Fleet Street and the Met ...
David Cameron made clear promises to the British public, or to parliament and directly to the victims of phone hacking that he would fully implement the cross-party agreement on Leveson’s recommendations and then proceed with the second share of the inquiry once criminal proceedings into phone hacking had finished. The government is not only shelving a central plank of the Leveson recommendations,which would incentivise publishes to sign up to a Royal Charter-backed regulator, but it is now reported that David Cameron will not proceed with the second share of the Leveson Inquiry.
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Source: theguardian.com