David Cameron postpones appearance before Leveson inquiry

Daily Record

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics-news/2012/05/13/worried-david-cameron-postpones-appearance-before-leveson-inquiry-86908-23857894/



The Prime Minister is said by friends to be “deeply nervous” about the probe into links between politicians and newspaper executives, which has already caused him acute embarrassment.

Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, revealed last week that Cameron signed off phone texts to her with the message LOL, thinking it meant “lots of love”.

The inquiry has seriously implicated one of the Prime Minister’s favourite cabinet ministers, Jeremy Hunt. The Culture Secretary was facing renewed calls to resign this weekend over claims he colluded with newspaper executives.

Chancellor George Osborne is also now likely to be summonsed after fresh details emerged of his close contacts with News International.

Cameron is said to be preparing “night and day” for his appearance before Lord Justice Leveson, which had been expected in the next week or so.

But sources say he will not now give evidence until next month after asking for more time to prepare.

He has also requested that he is questioned after Tony Blair and Gordon Brown give their evidence.

That way, he can explain his strategy of cosying up to newspaper executives by pointing to the fact that Blair and Brown admitted doing the same thing when they were PM, insiders revealed.

Cameron’s relationship with News International has come increasingly under the spotlight as the inquiry looks at claims that there was a deal between the Tories and Rupert Murdoch over the media mogul’s bid for full control of BSkyB.

“It’s all he thinks about,” said a source close to the Prime Minister.

“He’s terrified of getting somthing wrong, or being caught off guard.

“He knows that if he fluffs his appearance it could be devastating.”

I cannot stand the man, Rose, I suspect history is going to see him as one of the worst Prime Ministers the UK has ever had.

It doesn't surprise me at all that he is scared of appearing at Leveson.

I have been a Tory for all of my adult life. But I stopped voting over twenty years ago because they are all disgusting. Recent events of MPs Expenses entirely proving my point, if I needed anything to do that.

I am frequently castigated for opting out, but I really don't care. All of them are only interested in what is in it for them.

I am also deeply upset by the fact that it took more than four years before any of them where shamed into reviewing The McCannCase.

So, I don't give a shit about what they do to David Cameron, Gordon Brown, or Tony Blair. I actually have more sympathy for Rupert Murdoch who at least ran a successful Empire and didn't pretend to care about the Hoi Poloi while lining his own pocket.

Well Cameron is not my political color nor is he my P.M, but I do deeply care about UK

He isn't mine, either

I confess to getting angry at what Cameron has done/is trying to do. It's as if he hates everything which has been the best of Britain in the past, the things that generally united people - like the armed forces, especially the Royal Navy and RAF.

And he and his chums keep chanting rubbish about us All being in it together. Really? It isn't him and his rich banker chums who are being squeezed beyond endurance, it's ordinary working families.

I cannot stand his smug, shiny face.

When I lived in the UK I voted SNP; you should try our PM, Victor Orbán .... he makes most other countries' PM's look like sensible people. Here people are starting to call us Orbánistan as he is trying to change this country back into a one-party autocratic state. If he succeeds I'll be away to Austria. LL

Rose wrote:Well Cameron is not my political color nor is he my P.M, but I do deeply care about UK

I care about my Country of Birth, Rose. But I saw all of this coming a very long time ago, and I didn't want to stick around and watch it happening.
It wasn't easy coming here alone at the age of 53 without enough money and when I couldn't even speak the language, but it was infinitely preferable to living in fear and watching the rot. And in the end France has been far more kind to me than Britain ever was.

Michaela ‏ @minnie_themooch
@MyNanny25 IMHO I beleive cameron and may were threatened with front page attacks if they didn't do as she demanded and open #mccann case

Oh diddums! If they truly think that Cameron 'gave in' because he was scared of being criticized in a newspaper, then surely they must also think that he is not fit to hold office?

Which I personally don't think he is, but then, I never have. Green lighting the review is one of the few decent things he has done in office.