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malaise

(268,930 posts)
Sat May 12, 2012, 11:37 AM May 2012

Rebekah Brooks tells Leveson of more meetings with David Cameron

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/11/rebekah-brooks-leveson-cameron-meetings
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After a morning of Leveson inquiry testimony from Rebekah Brooks, No 10's worst fears over what the former News International boss might reveal about their relationship have not been realised. But Brooks did disclose a number of details about their communication and meetings that will embarrass the prime minister and lead to further questions about the appropriateness of their relationship.

These included Brooks telling Lord Justice Leveson on Friday morning that she exchanged up to two texts per week with David Cameron during the 2010 general election campaign. He signed off texts with "DC" or sometimes "LOL" – until she explained that the latter phrase meant "laugh out loud", not "lots of love". However, Brooks dismissed as "ludicrous" reports that they exchanged texts up to 12 times a week.

Brooks also confirmed for the first time that she was at a Boxing Day party with Cameron in December 2010. This came three days after she entertained the prime minister at her Oxfordshire home, with a dinner during which News Corporation's £8bn bid for BSkyB was discussed.

She said she could recall a conversation in 2010 with Cameron on the subject of phone hacking , in which the NI chief executive updated him about developments in the growing number of civil cases.

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