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Public Confidence in the Media and Police

I absolutely agree. The speech that the right hon. Member for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath (Mr Brown) made in the other day's debate was not at all persuasive about that point. There were calls for a judicial inquiry from my right hon. Friend the Member for Eastleigh (Chris Huhne), my hon. Friend the Member for Torbay (Mr Sanders) and others. That was on the previous Government's agenda, so it could have been held, just as legislation could have been implemented following the Information Commissioner's report and recommendations. However, we had neither an inquiry nor the implementation of higher penalties.