Labour's Chris Bryant sets out case against Jeremy Hunt

Speaking to the House of Commons, Labour MP Chris Bryant says Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt "deliberately failed to tell the whole truth to this House."

"It was only the legal powers vested in Leveson," he says, "that forced the truth out into the open."

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MPs vote against Hunt inquiry

Conservative MPs have defeated the Labour motion that the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt should be referred to the Independent Adviser on the Ministerial Code by 38 votes. The Liberal Democrat leadership had asked its MPs to abstain from the vote.