Cameron insists Hunt hasn’t breached code of conduct

David Cameron insisted last night that he had seen no evidence that culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has breached the ministerial code of conduct in his handling of News Corp’s bid for BSkyB.

In a House of Commons statement, the British prime minister said he was not going to set up a “parallel inquiry” into the Leveson inquiry into media standards. But he said that if evidence of a breach of the code emerged when Hunt appeared before the Leveson inquiry, he would refer the matter to his independent adviser on ministerial interests or take action himself.

Cameron was forced to go to the Commons to face MPs’ questions after Commons speaker John Bercow awarded Labour an urgent question.