Tom Watson: 'Parliament meteorite strike more likely than Tory MPs passing judgment on Rupert Murdoch' Commenting on the feud on BBC Radio 4"s Today programme, Mr Watson said: "I tabled the motion that said "not fit" on March 27 and that hangs in the air, you can discuss it at any point during your deliberations and then you can discuss it at the time you go to take formal amendments. It seemed that the Conservatives didn't want to discuss it. I was prepared to negotiate. But there were times during the whole discussion of this report that there would have been more chance of parliament being hit by a meteorite than by us deciding we were going to pass judgment on Rupert Murdoch. We did discuss it [the amendment] in our informal session and then we got to a formal session and they just said we're not going to support this at all. I was prepared to discuss it as long as they wanted. I thought it was important that the committee formed a view of the person responsible for corporate governance and they didn't want to do that. He added: "There comes a point when you have to speak out and through all of this process it seemed that my Conservative colleagues, their sole goal was to do as little as they could to pass comment on the leadership of the company by Rupert Murdoch or his son James Murdoch." Mr Watson wrote on Twitter yesterday that he now wanted to publish all the amendments to the report, from the Conservatives and Labour. Mrs Mensch replied that he should include a timeline, prompting Mr Watson to write: "You mean James Murdoch's second letter that seemed to uncannily answer concerns raised in private discussions? Asked on the Today programme if he was accusing Tory members of "having a back channel with News Corp," Mr Watson said: "No, but I do think it would be important for transparency that they revealed all the contacts and invitations they've had from News Corp and BSkyB.