Cameron defends Hunt over BSkyB bid The prime minister mounted a defence of Jeremy Hunt, his embattled culture secretary, on Monday, and entrenched his refusal to refer his conduct of News Corp's abortive bid for British Sky Broadcasting to the independent adviser on the ministerial code of conduct. David Cameron, answering an urgent question from Ed Miliband, leader of the opposition Labour party, repeated his position that the Leveson inquiry was the right forum for examining whether Mr Hunt had showed bias towards Rupert Murdoch's company during his quasi-judicial role in regulating the bid. "It is neither necessary or right to have a parallel inquiry [to Leveson]," the prime minister told a noisy House of Commons. Mr Cameron cancelled a visit to the Bletchley Park museum in Buckinghamshire, home to the wartime codebreaking unit, so he could answer the urgent question. His colleague at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has been under pressure since last Tuesday, when the Leveson inquiry published emails from Frédéric Michel, the former public affairs director for News Corp in Europe. The emails appeared to show that Mr Michel had been in close touch with Mr Hunt throughout News Corp's attempt to take full control of the satellite broadcaster. In fact, he had been in contact with Adam Smith, Mr Hunt's special adviser, who resigned last week, after saying he had far exceeded the authority the secretary of state had given him to be a liaison point with News Corp. Mr Miliband said Mr Cameron was ducking his own responsibility to investigate whether the ministerial code had been broken. "The prime minister is defending the indefensible and he knows it," the Labour leader said. Referring to Mr Smith's resignation, Mr Miliband said: "We all know that the special adviser had to go, to protect the culture secretary and the culture secretary has to stay to protect the prime minister." Lord Justice Leveson has said through a spokesman that it was not part of his remit to examine the conduct of government ministers. In one email, Mr Michel wrote the day before Mr Hunt made a crucial Commons statement about the bid: "Confidential. JH statement. Managed to get infos on plans for tomorrow (although absolutely illegal).