My speech today on the need for responsibility
Today marks two weeks since we found out that Milly Dowler’s phone had been hacked by the News of the World. Rebekah Brooks has been arrested, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner has resigned. Tomorrow we will have some of the most important select committee hearings in modern times. It feels that everything has changed. But the real risk remains that too little will really change. I want to talk today about how we ensure this is not a brief moment which people will look back upon and wonder what was that all about. Instead, I want to ensure this is a moment which will bring about a far greater sense of responsibility in our country. In particular, a new era of responsibility among the most powerful in our country. The heroes of the last fortnight have been the Dowler family. In the last week, the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, Rupert Murdoch have all met them. As have I. It...
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