Straw, Brooks enjoyed ‘gossip’ on train

Former cabinet minister Jack Straw has told the Leveson Inquiry how he used to “gossip” with Rebekah Brooks on the train every week.

Mr Straw said he “made arrangements” with the then editor of The Sun to commute into London together from Oxfordshire, where they both had homes: “During my period as justice secretary, I would often travel to London on a Monday morning from the West Oxfordshire station of Charlbury.

“Mrs Rebekah Brooks used to use the same train.