ethnics, then they are at risk. one final question. your performance with the committee to, you were willing to attend. you appeared to put emphasis whatever news of the world did it was wide of a part of a wider culture. if you knew these practices were going on elsewhere how could you not know that they were going on at news of the world. did you undertake some investigative branch into news of the world instead of waiting for these thins to drip out? i think going back to 2002, 2003, all the changes to the data protection act, the fact is
chapman, who is a corporate lawyer, and daniel cloak who was a head of hr, i think that they would they if called to this committee, that in their experience and their knowledge and when they looked through the file and felt that the harbottle & lewis letter was correct. okay. i ve got just a couple of final questions. the silence eye cross fleet street apart from a few newspapers. the garden, the independent and the ft and the new york times in the coverage of this affair, can you remember calling any editors after the guardian story in july 2005 to discuss how they might cover or not cover the story in order to downplay the
with the criticisms this committee found. we aspire daily to have a great company. and your criticisms were felt. could you tell us how often you either spoke to or met the various prime ministers since you have been editor of the news of the world and how often would you speak to or meet tony blair, gordon brown and david cameron respectively? gosh. on the prime minister on the prime minister david cameron, you know, we have met what i read the other day we have met 26 times. i don t know if that is absolutely correct. i can do my best to come back to you on an exact number. i m sure it is correct if that s what the prime minister s office say. the fact is i have never been to
there was change at a result of the select committee inquiries and the result of the office reporting into privacy. there was fundamental change across newspapers, and particularly like i said i was then editor of the sun, and i can say absolutely that the sun is a very clean ship a great newsroom, and in particular the operation motor man referred to the news of the world. thank you. miss brooks, rupert murdoch in his evidence session said the responsibility for the closure of news of the world laid fairly and square leon the management of the newspaper, which would include you. is that the case?
legal issues around what i say. i hope that you think when we saw the civil disclosure in december 2010 we acted swiftly and promptly to deal with it. the police investigation would not be open there. there would not be a new criminal inquiry if it hadn t been for the information news international handled over. i m not saying we haven t made mistakes. but we but the metropolitan police have repeatedly said as you heard last week, the committee heard last week, they said there was no need for further criminal investigation. so i think that everyone involved in 2007 would say now that the mistakes were made. but i hope that you feel we have responded appropriately and responsibly season we say the information in 2010.