Brown denies 'aggressive' call to Brooks

Gordon Brown today denied behaving aggressively towards Rebekah Brooks when he telephoned her expecting an apology for negative coverage, only to be told more was to come.

The former British prime minister told the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics that he was led to believe by Rupert Murdoch that the then News International chief executive would say sorry for a slew of damaging stories about his handling of Afghanistan.