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Phone Tapping

Does my right hon. Friend agree that the shadow Home Secretary let the cat out of the bag by showing that this is a rather thinly veiled attempt to try to make as much political capital as possible instead of actually trying to get to the bottom of what happened? Everything that we have heard today has been thoroughly covered in the Select Committee report; there is absolutely nothing new. We took up the concerns about the Metropolitan police's investigation at the time, when Assistant Commissioner Yates said, regarding the failure to conduct wider interviews during our Select Committee hearings:"““perhaps in 2006 it ought to have been done; I do not know, but in 2009 that is going to take us absolutely nowhere.””" Can my right hon. Friend ensure that we do not waste any more time and effort on trying to make political capital out of flogging an old horse?