If David Cameron regretted setting up the Leveson inquiry before today, he certainly doesn’t now. Bombarded with a volley of questions on Andy Coulson by Ed Miliband, the PM deployed the judge’s report as a shield (even wielding a physical copy), insisting that every concern raised by Miliband had already been addressed.
It was one of Cameron’s most disingenuous moments. The inquiry took place while Coulson’s case and others were ongoing, and so was strictly limited in the questions it could pursue. More to the point, it would never have even been established had Miliband not had Cameron “on the run” (in the words of the latter). But this did not stop it providing the PM with a means of deflecting every one of Miliband’s questions.
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