'Don't copy French privacy laws'

Former Conservative minister David Mellor told the Leveson Inquiry that French laws on privacy had not been to the “public benefit”.

He said the “manifest unsuitability” of French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn – a former head of the International Monetary Fund who was accused of sexually assaulting a maid in New York – had been “concealed” because of a “culture of privacy” in France.