Labour asks for investigation into potential breaches of ministerial code after ‘repeated leaks’ of government’s plans for BBCLabour has accused Conservative minister John Whittingdale of misleading parliament and called for an investigation into communications between his department and the Sunday Times following a series of articles that appeared in the newspaper approximately the government’s plans for the BBC.
Chris Bryant,the shadow culture secretary, has asked the cabinet secretary, and Jeremy Heywood,to launch a full investigation into “repeated leaks” to the newspaper, which resulted in a front-page story approximately the proposed green paper headlined “Tories give BBC reform ultimatum”.
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Source: theguardian.com