10.23 Murdoch says he didn't see anything wrong with News Corp lobbyist Michel's activities. He is asked: "Were you surprised by the closeness of Mr Michel and Mr Hunt's office? He replies: "No, I dont want to say anything against Mr Michel, but I think there could have been a bit of exaggeration there." Jay asks whether Murdoch was assuming that Hunt was onside. He says he wasn't, and he assumed a responsible minister would deal with the situation properly. "Vince Cable was the exception," he says. 10.18 Murdoch is asked if he spoke to his son James about the situation with Vince Cable. Did James tell you "we've got someone better now" when Hunt replaced Cable? Murdoch replies: No, but I don't think we could have had anyone worse. Murdoch is asked whether his son told him that Hunt was "very much on side." Murdoch says he doesn't remember that. 10.14 Conversation turns to the BskyB bid. Robert Jay QC is asking about conversations with Media Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Murdoch denies ever speaking to him, says there may have been a dinner once, but he doesn't remember. Did you ever call him? Never, he replies. 10.07 Murdoch is being asked now about his editors over the years, and his influence over them. He is asked about David Yelland's autobiography which claimed all Murdoch editors listen to the radio in the morning thinking "what would Murdoch think about this." Murdoch says the claims are "nonsense" and the autobiography is "very strange." Murdoch says there are conversations with his editors reasonably constantly, but says he doesn't ring them up to tell them what to do. 10.03 Murdoch is told Gordon Brown has denied the conversation he referred to yesterday ever took place - where Brown said he was "declaring war" on News International. Murdoch says he "stands by every word of his evidence." 10.00 Murdoch has taken the stand again. Day two of his evidence is underway. 9.55 Labour leader Ed Miliband told The Today Programme this morning that it was "incredible" that Mr Hunt was still Culture Secretary and accused Mr Cameron of using him as a "firewall." He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "It beggars belief that he's still in his job, because to believe that he should stay you have to believe that his special adviser was, if you like, a lone wolf, who spent six months in collusion with News Corporation, passing information that was to be announced in the House of Commons, providing information about discussions with the regulator, providing information about what opposing parties were saying. I think it's incredible that Jeremy Hunt hasn't resigned and that that David Cameron has kept him in his job. Mr Miliband acknowledged that Labour too had "got too close to the Murdochs," but went on: "There is a world of difference between being too close to the Murdochs and the pattern of behaviour we've seen revealed in the past few days." He added: "Why is Jeremy Hunt still in his job? Because David Cameron has questions to answer, and Jeremy Hunt is, if you like, acting as a firewall, and if he goes the questions will then move to David Cameron's conversations with Rebekah Brooks, with James Murdoch and others. 9.50 We have six pages of Leveson coverage in today's Daily Telegraph. Some other hightlights Secret Iraq war message 'just a myth Tony Blair phoned Rupert Murdoch the day before Britain went to war in Iraq but was not given any "secret messages of support for the war," the Leveson Inquiry has heard. Rupert Murdoch ordered the Scottish Sun to back the SNP in last year's Holyrood elections after years of gifts, meetings and phone calls resulted in a "warm relationship" with Alex Salmond, it has emerged. Murdoch hints that hacking crisis could spread to US Rupert Murdoch has given the biggest hint to date that the phone-hacking crisis could spread to his US interests. In his witness statement to the Leveson Inquiry, he discloses that "evidence of alleged or suspected illegality" by News International staff is being passed to investigators from the US Department of Justice. Earlier this month, Mark Lewis, the lawyer representing dozens of hacking victims, travelled to America where he said he was representing at least three people who believe their phones were hacked on US soil. 9.41 In evidence yesterday, Murdoch claimed Gordon Brown 'was unbalanced when he declared war on News Corp. Our chief reporter Gordon Rayner writes: Mr Brown phoned the News Corporation boss in 2009 to confront him about The Sun's decision to switch allegiance to the Tories after it ran a front-page editorial saying Labour's Lost It, timed to coincide with his keynote speech to the Labour Party conference. Kelvin MacKenzie, the former Sun editor, told the Leveson Inquiry last year that Mr Brown had "roared at" Mr Murdoch for 20 minutes, which the News Corp boss described as a "colourful exaggeration." But giving his first account of the conversation, Mr Murdoch told the Leveson Inquiry that Mr Brown had indeed promised retribution. Mr Brown did call me and said, 'Rupert, what do you know? What's going on here?" " he said. "And I said, 'What do you mean?" and he said, 'The Sun, what it's doing and how it came about." 9.15 For an overview of yesterday's developments, our political correspondent Rowena Mason has written this piece on Cameron's five secret meetings with Rupert Murdoch Rupert Murdoch on Wednesday night disclosed that he had met the Prime Minister on at least five more occasions than David Cameron has previously admitted. The chairman and chief executive of News Corporation provided details of diary entries to the Leveson Inquiry which showed that the two men had met on at least seven occasions since Mr Cameron became Prime Minister. Downing Street has previously acknowledged only that the Prime Minister had met the media tycoon twice since May 2010 and the contents of Mr Murdoch's diary will add to concerns about Mr Cameron's relationship with News Corporation executives. In the wake of the phone hacking scandal, the Prime Minister published details of his meetings with media executives and editors. In the House of Commons, he pledged to MPs that "every contact" had been made public. 9.00 Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of the Leveson Inquiry into the relationship with the press and the police. 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