Leveson Report: David Cameron became too close to newspaper executives "This section of the report has dealt with too many issues where the public, not knowing any more than it has, has been entitled to worry about the way things have been done and what has been going on," the report states. A way of conducting relationships with the media which leads to a situation in which a public inquiry is needed to take an objective, not to say forensic, look at the matter in order to reassure the public cannot be considered as satisfactory or itself in the public interest. Mr Cameron was described as going to "great lengths" to win over News International, and the Prime Minister was right to accept that politicians had "got too close to the media. "The circumstances in which Rupert Murdoch and his close advisers decided to endorse Mr Cameron are complex," the Leveson Report said. Mr Cameron went to great lengths to secure meetings face-to-face with Mr Murdoch and other News International executives and editors. The benefits of this may have played some part in the outcome but should not be overestimated.  However, the Leveson Report rejected the allegation made by senior Labour figures, including Mr Brown, that there had been a "deal" between the Conservatives and News International. "The evidence does not, of course, establish anything resembling a 'deal" whereby News International's support was traded for the expectation of policy favours," the report stated. The Prime Minister's communications with Telegraph Media Group, including text messages exchanged with Aidan Barclay, the company's chairman, are also discussed in the report. "Mr Barclay made it clear that he does not ask politicians for favours, and none are returned; his discussions are largely of a general political and economic nature," it states. The Leveson Report notes that the problems surrounding politicians and the media date to the 1980s, since when politicians have "developed too a close a relationship with the press in a way which has not been in the public interest." Politicians have "placed themselves in a position in which they risked becoming vulnerable to unaccountable influences." Lord Leveson says it is for politicians not newspaper proprietors to "remedy the situation." Despite the warnings, the Leveson Report also stresses that the "routine" interactions between the press and politicians "does not operate so as to give rise to any legitimate public concern." "The overwhelming evidence is that the relations between politicians and the press on a day to day basis are in robust good health and performing the vital public interest functions of a free press in a vigorous democracy," says the report.