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Public Confidence in the Media and Police

On this point about investigative journalism, will the hon. Gentleman disassociate himself from the disgraceful attempts that we heard earlier to smear Tom Baldwin for his role in a perfectly legitimate investigation that has been defended not only by The Times but by its then news editor, who now serves in the Government as the Secretary of State for Education, and who, following that investigation, described Lord Ashcroft as"““Ambassador for one foreign country and a tax exile in another””." He also said that the credibility of the Conservative party was not enhanced by its then leader"““acting as the paid lobbyist for your own title-hungry Treasurer””."