Did Jeremy Hunt abuse his office?

Did culture secretary Jeremy Hunt cross the line in his support for Robert Murdoch? Emily Hohler reports.

Revenge is a dish best served cold, so James Murdoch had a "delectable banquet" at the Leveson Inquiry on Tuesday, says Matthew Norman in The Independent.

He recalled talking about News Corp's bid for BSkyB with David Cameron at the Oxfordshire home of Rebekah Brooks, the former CEO of News International, and discussed a cache of emails between a News Corp executive, Frederic Michel, and Adam Smith, a special adviser to Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who was overseeing the bid in a quasi-judicial role.

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.