Capitol Riot - capitol-riot.comAll eyes on Reform as 24 councils, six mayoralties and a parliamentary byelection are contested
Polling has opened across England in a series of local, mayoral and parliamentary races that will be the first major electoral test of Keir Starmer’s Labour government.
The elections cover 24 councils across England, as well as six mayoralties and a byelection in the formerly Labour-held seat of Runcorn and Helsby in Cheshire.
Exclusive: Sun reporter also wrote that former MP ‘must die’, according to claims in newly disclosed document
Rebekah Brooks, the chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s UK company, took a “deeply concerning interest” in the phone-hacking campaigner Tom Watson while one of her journalists wrote that he “must die”, according to claims in a newly disclosed court document.
Referring to a potential place for Watson on a parliamentary committee looking into unlawful behaviour, Brooks allegedly told Will Lewis, the then general manager of News Group Newspapers (NGN) – who is now the chief executive and publisher of the Washington Post – in June 2011 to pass on a message that the company would “go for broke if watson on – and downing street need to be warned”.
Phone call contains admission of a ‘serious nature’ by investigative journalist Nick McKenzie, according to decorated war veteran’s legal team
A “recording made in secret” has been ruled admissible in Ben Roberts-Smith’s bid to reopen his appeal for his unsuccessful defamation case against Nine newspapers – despite Nine’s lawyers arguing the audio should be treated with “great caution”.
The recording is a key piece of evidence, according to the decorated war veteran’s legal team, who claimed the 85-second audio clip contained an admission by investigative journalist Nick McKenzie of a “serious nature”.
