Leveson inquiry: Jeremy Paxman, Andrew Marr, Lord Reid Good morning and welcome to the Leveson inquiry. Today the inquiry will hear evidence from two of the leading TV journalists of their generation, Andrew Marr and Jeremy Paxman. Before presenting his eponymous Sunday morning current affairs show on BBC1, Marr was the BBC's political editor from from 2000 to 2005 and editor of the Independent from 1996 to 1998. Paxman has grilled guests on BBC2's Newsnight since 1989. Before that Paxman was a correspondent for the BBC's investigative strand, Panoraman, and enjoyed a stint as a newsreader on the Six O'Clock News. He first joined the BBC as a graduate trainee in 1972. The pair will be asked about their relationship with successive prime ministers and government officials. The inquiry will also hear evidence today from Lord Reid, the former Labour minister who served as defence secretary, home secretary and Northern Ireland secretary in Tony Blair's government. Reid was involved in some of the most sensitive decision-making periods of Blair's government, including the response to the 7/7 terror attacks in London and peace talks in Northern Ireland between 2001 and 2002. The Tory MP Stephen Dorrell will also appear before the inquiry. He was health secretary in the final two years of John Major's government.