It was Murdoch’s fault says disgraced MP Chris Huhne

Disgraced former Cabinet minister Chris Huhne claimed that the media stories which led to his downfall were “payback” for his support for investigations into allegations of hacking by Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers.
Chris Huhne faces the media on his release from prisonChris Huhne faces the media on his release from prison
Chris Huhne faces the media on his release from prison

Mr Huhne, who quit Parliament after being jailed for persuading his then wife to take his speeding points, called on the Government to consider statutory limitations on newspaper ownership.

Writing in The Guardian, the ex-Energy Secretary claimed that the News of the World hired a private investigator to put him under surveillance in 2009 to gain information about his affair after he spoke out about hacking. And he claimed that a second Murdoch newspaper, the Sunday Times, “groomed” his ex-wife Vicky Pryce until she told them about the speeding points.

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“Why was News International prepared to invest so much to tail an opposition Liberal Democrat back in 2009?,” he asked. “Maybe it was coincidence, but that summer I was the only frontbencher who, with Nick Clegg’s brave backing, called for the Metropolitan Police to reopen the voicemail hacking inquiry into Rupert Murdoch’s empire.”

Claiming that questions over his speeding fine had been known for several years, he questioned why the Murdoch newspapers waited until that time to pursue it, adding: “It’s not straight journalism, it’s actually about the Murdoch press using the power that it has to pursue Rupert Murdoch’s own business interests.”