As was said earlier, much legislation has been put in place to deal with that, yet banks are still engaged in corrupt practices. Legislation is already in place to address all the issues that have been raised, whether intrusion, hacking, bribery or the police being too close to journalists. What we have to do is give prosecutors the confidence to pursue those issues, because we politicians have been somewhat concerned about not upsetting the newspapers and have not been using the legislation already in place to pursue those individuals.
Leveson Inquiry
Proceeding contribution from
Kris Hopkins
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 3 December 2012.
It occurred during Debate on Leveson Inquiry.
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