Daniel Morgan murder: Labour MP asks for assurance report will not be delayed – as it happened
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6.34pm BST
It is not difficult to see why powerful people, with very close friends in News International [Rupert Murdoch's newspaper company, now called News UK] might want to delay or prevent this publication. So has the home secretary, or any of her advisers or officials, had any formal or informal discussion or correspondence on this matter with News UK, with Rebekah Brooks [the News UK boss] or with Rupert Murdoch? And will she publish the minutes of her department's meetings with News UK over the past 12 months?
If not, won't people conclude that the cover-up is still going on, and this isn't the party of law and order, it's the party of the cover-up?
I can't help thinking if things had been the other way round - if it had been Sun journalists who had lied to procure an interview with the late Princess of Wales and if it were the BBC that were alleged to be involved in covering up the reasons for a brutal murder on the streets of London - then the reaction on the government benches to this and [the BBC story] may have been very different.
5.43pm BST
The UQ is over, but Chris Bryant is making a point of order. He says national security" can be used to cover anything.
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