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As Lord Leveson is about to deliver his verdict on the state of the

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press, senior politicians, campaign groups and celebrities are piling

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on the pressure to get their way. What about the powerless? If you

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are not part of the establishment, will Lord Leveson still be on your

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side? The father of a 7/7 victim caught

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up in hacking, thinks not. You can see it is all part of the old boy

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network and the same establishment. I haven't seen any part of the

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Leveson Inquiry to which I can feel, as a member of the public,

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affiliated with. The charge is eliteism, is it true?

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Brussels tonight, full of sound and fury, but signifying no change at

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all. Who is there to stand up for the taxpayer, who is to say,

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where's the money going to come from, who will pay for this? Anger

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in Egypt, as their newly-elected President make as power grab, is he

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is securing democracy or destroying Good evening, when David Cameron

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announced the Leveson Inquiry, he said it would look into not only

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how newspapers are regulated, but also at the relationships between

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politicians and the press. Has the intervening 12 months revealed more

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about Britain's power elites than could ever have been imagined. Who

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knew, for instance, that the Prime Minister and Rebekah Brooks had

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such a close relationship. Are the fault lines developing over

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statutory regulation, in the best interests of celebrities or every

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day folks. First tonight, we hare the testimony of the father of one

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of those who died in the London someings, and himself a suspected

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victim of phone hacking. David Foulkes was 24 years old when

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he was killed on the 7th July, in Edgware Road, it was his first time

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in London on his own. My wife came home, we spent the next 36, 48

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hours trying to get some kind of answer. We got no response, nobody

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knew what was going on, we couldn't get touch with David, we had mobile

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phones, two landlines at home, David had two phones, we tried

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every number and combination of numbers and we called for

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everything and got nowhere. would be six days before David's

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parents finally learned he was dead. It would be six more years before

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they discovered from the police that their phones might have been

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hacked by the News of the World. was a senior police officer and he

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started discussing with me Operation Weeting, it meant to go

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to me, I asked him when did he know that my private details were in the

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possession of News International. He said, for some years now. He had

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only contacted me, and other members, simply because it was

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about to be put in the public domain in the Daily Telegraph, I

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think it was, the next day. When Brian Leveson was first appointed

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to lead the hacking inquiry, there was hope that the inquiry would be

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about the damage done to ordinary families. Despite the 100 witnesses

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from many organisations, the inquiry hasn't turned out how he

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has wanted. I thought for once something to do with the public

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would be addressed. There was some interest in the 7/7 people again, I

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didn't want to get involved with that. And yet the families of the

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victims were the ones that one of the biggest grievances? Exactly. I

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feel quite upset that an important piece of work for ordinary people,

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for ordinary members of the public, was railroaded by the celebrity

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circus. And also, it became apparent, very quickly, that the

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politicians would quite like to get a grip on the media as well, and

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the politicians are clearly using Leveson as a vehicle to get their

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own way. But what about the Government, speaking to the

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Government about what happened? Only ten days or so ago, it was

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reported in the press, that Maria Miller, the minister, DCMS, had

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face-to-face meetings with Hugh Grant, and the press reported she

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was minded to go along with much of his thoughts and suggestions. I e-

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mailed Maria Miller, explaining who I was, and my points of view, and I

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didn't even get a reply from the minister. I got a reply from one of

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her aides, saying it would be inappropriate for a minister to

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comment as the report had not yet been publicised. Which, I just

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think illustrated my point precisely. That the Leveson Inquiry

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has been hijacked, if you are rich and famous and a celebrity, you

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have immediate access to ministers, but if you are an ordinary member

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of the public, a ministerial aide sends you an e-mail.

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What do you want to come out of the Leveson Inquiry. You seem to be

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suggesting that you think it is a stitch-up for politicians to put

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their dabs on the media? I think stitch-up might be a bit strong.

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But certainly they have seen it as an opportunity to maybe get hold of

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the media and try to shape it in a way that suits them. That would be

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a dreadful outcome. That would be like going back to Stalinism, and

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China and North Korea. The great strength of this country is we do

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have a free press. We have in place, currently, enough laws to deal with

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the activities we are talking about. We don't need any more legislation.

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We just need a regulation, or a body that is able to control when

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they cross the line, from a morality point of view. Do you

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think that the way that Leveson has been conducted, and your experience

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of Leveson, tells you anything about the establishment? Well, I

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think that the establishment have quickly taken control of Leveson.

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If you look at the team that are supporting Leveson, you can see,

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that it's all part of the same old boy network, and the name

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establishment. I have not seen any part of the Leveson Inquiry to

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which I can feel, as a member of the public, affiliated with, and

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think that's to help me, as a member of the public, that is to

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help me. All I have seen is various lobby groups take over the Leveson

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Inquiry. Trying to shape it to suit them. If you were to be sitting in

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front of Brian Leveson right now, what would you say to him? I would

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be saying to him that I hope he has not been derailed. That he has been

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able to cut through all the smoke screen and keep the inquiry on

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track. I would like to think that he would recommend a course of

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action that is the right and proper thing to do. Which avoids

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parliament, in any way, taking over or having control of the media.

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Thank you very much indeed. I'm joined now by Simon Jenkins,

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columnist for the Guardian, and two people who have had their phones

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hacked, the publicist, Max Clifford and Joan Smith.

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Do you recognise Graham Foulkes's characterisation of Leveson as

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being hijacked by celebrity? didn't need to be hijacked, he was

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obsessed with celebrity. I don't think it is fair to imply,

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therefore, he's going to give an establishment stitch-up, it was an

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ill-judged commission of inquiry, it was way over the top. The whole

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reference to phone hacking, in your own report, this is a crime.

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Leveson is not looking into that crime. He's not got any remit to

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look into the crime, maybe on a future date. This was a crime that

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has been committed and being dealt with by the police. The Leveson

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Inquiry is about the ethics of the press, that is a different matter.

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The ethic of the press, as Graham was saying, he wants some new body

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to govern the ethic of the press. You he couldn't say what it was, I

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don't know what it is going to be. I'm doubtful this characterising

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Leveson as an establishment stitch- up is the correct way to do it.

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Before we talk about establishment, does he have a point, from where he

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sits, it has been dominated by celebrities who have had their

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phones hacked, and in a sense that the media itself latches on to that,

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and that is what it has been characterised by? I'm not wealthy

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or a celebrity, in the last week I have met David Cameron, Ed Miliband

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and Nick Clegg, to discuss phone hacking, and all of that. And the

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people. You are a columnist for a national newspaper, you have

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profile? The rest of the people in the room for me were people whose

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relatives had disappeared or murdered, you might have recognised

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their names, not because they are celebrities, but they are people

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who terrible things have happened to. What were you talking about in

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the room? We were talking about, what we as victims of phone hacking,

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would like to see come out of the Leveson Inquiry, and seeking

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assurances from all three party leaders that they were still

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committed to the Leveson process. It is interesting that you didn't

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think that meeting with Leveson would have been a good idea. Maybe

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that is simply not allowed? For the victims? To put your point of view

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at this stage in the inquiry? of us have already given evidence.

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I gave evidence on the first day of the inquiry, when it was taking

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evidence. I must say, that having been involved in the whole thing

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for a year as a core participant victim, I have met far, far more

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people who were ordinary members of the public who had terrible things

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happen to them than I have celebrities. What I think happens

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is when news organisations ring up the victims' organisations they ask

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for Hugh Grant, that may skew the impression of what the victims'

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organisation is. This is very much Graham Foulkes's own experience

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with it, do you have sympathy with how he views Leveson? I think the

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most important thing, as far as I'm concerned, is hopefully the public

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will get better protection. Stars, the rich and famous, have tonnes of

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protection. I know, because in many ways I'm part of it, and have been

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for 50 years. The rich and famous are well looked after, they have

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got expensive lawyers and PR people, often giving them more protection

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than they deserve. Ordinary members of the public don't have. And

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that's one thing I hope will come out of the Leveson Inquiry. We must

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have a free press, but you must have members of the public

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protected when their privacy is being invaded, with no

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justification. Do you think it does show, not necessarily that the

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prevalence of an establishment, but a number of elites. For example,

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you would hope that the newspapers would hold politicians to account,

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but you feel that, in a sense, newspapers have been so embroiled

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in this, that they don't have an independence from politicians?

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think it is wrong to frame this as an attack on freem do of the press.

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What it is, it is an exposure of abuse of power. I don't he see how

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newspapers, and editors, can hold politicians to account if we are

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meeting. I have no problem with them being lobbied by editors, and

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public meetings that are publicly recorded. What Leveson has exposed

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is a level of private meetings, subterranean contact, that the rest

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of us didn't know about. That is very worrying. There is a very

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narrow group, between the newspaper press, the broadcasters, the

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politicians, they go round in a merry-go-round? What is interesting

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about Leveson, he has revealed some of the things that go on. That is

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interesting. Every now and then it is interesting to have a great

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turning over of stones and you see all the little bugs running around

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underneath the stones. That has been significant, and interesting,

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it is important you do that. Whether at the end of the day you

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can invent some new system that prevents that happening, or reveals

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it to the public or makes a difference, I very much doubt.

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someone, like people whose families were the victims of 7/7, and they

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look at where the power lies, it would be fair to say that the power

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lies often between the press and the politicians, and even the

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judiciary. That is the narrow area in Britain where power resides?

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reality of it is, of course, it is not just politicians who have a

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close relationship, because they need to, with Fleet Street, so do

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the proprietors of newspapers have a close relationship with the press,

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and politicians, because they all want to have maximum influence.

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It's just a question of trying to make it as open as possible so we

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can all see and hear what is going Going back to the point that Graham

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was making. I think there is a real question about how what might be

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called "ordinary people", famous for a day, might get some redress

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when they feel hard done by. The Press Complaints Commission was set

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up to do that. In those cases the press complaints commission hasn't

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done a bad job. The crime is a different matter. But redress is

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there, it needs to be tightened up and tweaked, but it is feasible.

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Here you have an all-singing, all- dancing inquiry that takes a year.

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You have Lord Leveson who doesn't want the report to Laing qirb on

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the shelf. He presents his report to parliament, and the politicians,

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who are implicated, make the decision. You describe the real

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world. The point is, he may, he may say that actually we should have

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some, what Joan wants, satry? don't want that, I want --

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statutory? I don't want that I want independent. But he has a whole

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pile of people saying they don't want that? Would I rather the Prime

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Minister and the cabinet take a decision than a judge. I would

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rather the Prime Minister and the cabinet. What is the point of the

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inquiry, there will be a second judgment? To reveal things, conduct

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a public debate, which is done. To turn over stones. Judges shouldn't

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make law. You say to turn over stones, if those stones are going

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to be turned back again, what is the point? That is why I don't

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think this is going top had a. I don't think that Lord Justice

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Leveson wants to be another Calcott. The last commission to the press?

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That was 20 years ago and Simon was part of that. All we have had for

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the last 20 years self-regulation. The question is not self-or state

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regulation, it is independent -- self-or-state regulation, it is

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independent regulation. You have to have a strong press complaints body

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that is prepared to stand up for ordinary people. Ordinary people

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know of its existence and they will help them. That hasn't happened in

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the past. Unlike some, I think the press complaints commission has

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been dreadful for ordinary people, for the last 20, 30 years, so many

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people have come to me, as well as other people, and saying the press

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complaints don't want to know. Many, many people, and they weren't

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interested. At the moment do you think Brian Leveson will be feeling

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the pressure? He's a tough guy. He's run that inquiry as he wanted

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to run it. I think he became star struck by it. That in itself was

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quite useful, it has raised the profile of it all. If you ask me at

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the end of the day if there will be a lot of difference, I don't think

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there is. The thing is to meet the point to ensure you have a

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plausible regime, that people have faith in. They won't have faith in

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it if the press run it themselves. That is the problem. Jo all wait

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through it has been about power -- All the way through it has been

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about power, it is how you give power to ordinary people. And

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Leveson wants to make sure there is an independent regulator where the

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editors aren't judging themselves and others, and a statutory

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backdrop so nobody can opt out of the situation. What is interesting,

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is as soon as he brings his report out, he's going to Australia, where

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the media is totally controlled by Rupert Murdoch! Maybe it was

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indigestion eating a meal of cold cut late at night, or too much rich

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Belgian chocolate. 27 European leaders, in the end, agreed to

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nothing. The EU budget is running out with a 2% added on at the table.

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There is a raft of other EU- designed policies coming down the

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track, most greeted like a cup of warm sick by David Cameron and his

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Conservative colleagues. So is this only the beginning of saying no to

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Europe? Vasily Grossman witnessed If only it were as simple as

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tossing a few coins in a hat, they could agree the EU budget and be

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home in time for tea. This is not just a battle about cash. It is

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also about political capital. We're not going to be tough on

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budgets at home, just to come here and sign up to big increases in

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European spending. From a budget of nearly a trillion euros, it is

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simplely not acceptable to carry on tinkering around the edges,

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shuffling chunks of money from one part of the budget to another, we

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need to cut unaffordable spending. That is what is happening at home,

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and it needs to happen here. This is more than just a row about the

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budget, it should be seen as part of a wider conflict between

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competing visions for how the EU should evolve. If you want a

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concrete example of how the EU institutions themselves think they

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should go, you only have to travel next door from the summit venue.

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A short walk away is evidence that far from being an institution in

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retreat, the EU wants to do more, it wants a deeper, comprehensive

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union. It's called the Europa Building,

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and it is costing over a billion euros with its central pod-like

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thing. When it is finished it will be the home of the European Council,

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and Herman Van Rompuy. The question is, how much will Britain be

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involved in what goes on there? whole idea of not to have the a la

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carte, not to do the "cherrypick"ing, and take what you

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like and don't contribute to the rest of it. It is like being a

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member of any club, you take the week with the sour. It increasingly

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looks like "cherrypick"ing. does that go down here? Not very

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well. The UK has signalled it intends to exercise its opt-out

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from 140 justice and home affairs measures, and renegotiate back into

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the ones it wants to be part of. We have also signalled very strongly

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we want nothing to do with and would veto any attempts to

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introduce banking and financial regulation that were against

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Britain's interests. This is one way of relieving the

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frustration of a summit like this, there is plenty of frustration

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among EU partner, some of whom are taking aim at what they regard as

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Britain's aggressively negative attitude. I think it is a very bad

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thing that there should be a second-class membership of Great

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Britain. The interest of Britain and the interest of the British

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citizens and companies lies on the continent. A second-class

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membership, something inbetween Norway and Turkey seems to me a

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very bad move. Practically is it possible, with matters like

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justice? It is already prakically a little bit the case. Britain is not

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a member of Schengen, or the euro. So the summit briefing go on,

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frankly Britain isn't the biggest problem the EU is facing right now.

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That honour, of course, belongs to the euro crisis, that is by no

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means over. The measures that the 17 eurozone countries will be

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forced into taking will inevitably lead to further political, fiscal

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and economic integration, and Britain, will inevitably be,

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included from that. The trouble is this, we may opt out of parts of

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Europe, and yet what is clear is that the 17 eurozone countries are

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moving on to a deeper political union, of that there is no doubt.

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There will be meetings going on in the eurozone that make laws and

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rules that affect the single market, of which we are a member, and yet

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we are not even allowed in the room. We are becoming the Cinderella

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state, asked to do the skivvy, and not invited to the grand dinner and

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decide important things for British commerce. Not the postcard David

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Cameron is going to be sending home. There are forces on both sides of

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the channel pushing and pulling Britain away from a central role in

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the EU It is for the politicians to decide how much to assist or resist

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those forces. They call him a temporary dictator,

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the new Pharaoh, President Morsi, the west point man for democracy in

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the Arab world, no sooner had delivered a truce between Gaza and

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Israel, he brazenly issued constitutional decrees banning any

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opposition to his decisions, protests were soon to follow. Is

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this truly temporary, or is Israel sliding into another dictatorship.

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Popular fury, that we first saw in last year's uprising, repeated now

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in post revolutionary Egypt. Today offices of President Morsi's Muslim

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Brotherhood were ransacked, just as the offices of their historic enemy,

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Hosni Mubarak's party, were ransacked two years ago. Crowds in

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Cairo's Tahrir Square accused Morsi, who won a democratic election, of

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becoming the new Mubarak. One of Egypt's best-known

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politician, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Mohammed Al-Baradi, called

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him the new Pharaoh. They are enraged by his new rules, that his

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decisions can't be overruled by the courts. For many of the liberal,

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who sparked the uprising here, is proof, they believe, of a plan by

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religious forces to hijack a revolution that wasn't originally

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their's. The previously cautious Morsi, has been emboldened, perhaps,

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bit international prestige he has just won, for brokering the Gaza-

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Israel ceasefire. When he addressed a rally in Cairo today he insisted

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his powers were only temporary. TRANSLATION: I would like to see a

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genuine opposition, and strong opposition. I am the guarantor of

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that. I will protect my brothers in the opposition, all their rights so

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they can exercise their role as it should be.

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Morsi's supporters argue that the judiciaries is still full of

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Mubarak-era apppointees, even liberals approve his decree for a

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retrial of those convicted of killings in last year's uprising.

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But his bid for more power will only further polarise a society

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ever more deeply split between those for and against religious

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rule. Egypt's likely to become more unstable in the seven months that

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will now pass with no clear democratic checks and balances.

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Until a new parliament's elected under a new constitution, at the

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very earliest, next summer. With us from Cairo is a researcher

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for Human Rights Watch, and in Birmingham, is a spokesman for

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President Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood movement.

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First of all, how long do you think has President Morsi been planning

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this, it wasn't a quick decision after the Gaza truce, was it?

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don't think it is a quick decision. We all agree that when we are

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dealing with exceptional moments we need exception decisions. He

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usually tried to go straight forward. It does seem even that if

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we are able to consider everything legal, the revolution itself was

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illegal, because Mubarak was elected President. But he tried to

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achieve what he has promised his people, this is the time to do that.

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He hasn't asked to have the parliament's power, besides his

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power, this has already been given to him, but dissolution of the

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parliament. But a lot of the people criticising Morsi, they were all

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the time, over the last year trying to say he needs to take decisions,

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rather than say he's following the rules. Isn't this just unfinished

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business? No, this is a threat to the transition. Egypt has a very

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fragile democracy, it has had two sets of election, a decision like

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this, to give a President absolute power with zero oversight, he has

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given himself more power than the military had last year. At least

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with the military some of those decisions we could challenge them

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in the administrative courts. This is dangerous for Egypt's transition.

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The fact it is temporary is no guarantee of improvement. People

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have very serious concerns about the constitution right now, not in

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terms of rights and provisions, but also the broad powers given to the

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President. The promise of trust me, I will set myself above the law and

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court oversight, but trust me, I'm going to take care of things, will

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not resonate. Do you think that President Morsi is going to take

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any more temporary powers, or is this the limit of it? I don't think

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so, I think every way we look at it, most of the Egyptians agree about

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the decisions of sacking the public prosecutor, all Egyptians agree

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about having retrials of criminals that shed blood during the time of

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the revolution. If we speak about trying to protect the constitution

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and trying to protect the council, we have no, at the moment we have

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no institution at all in Egypt after dissolving the parliament.

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What's trying to say, at the moment, if we we are going to have voting

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for this institution coming, of the sort of Morsi, they can say no to

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the constitution if they don't like it. Do you take his promise at face

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value that this is a temporary measure, and when there is a

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constitution at the end of parliamentary election, and when

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indeed there is a judiciary that is more inclined towards the Muslim

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Brotherhood's point of view, he will recind these powers again?

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think the main question is what is going to happen in the next seven

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months. Why would a President set himself up beyond judicial

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oversight. Why would he include provision number six which says he

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can take all necessary measures to protect the revolution or the unity

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of the nation f it wasn't for the fact that he's planning to issue

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laws and decrees which will violate existing laws and violate

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constitutional provisions and rights. Like what? I think there

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are a lot of questions in terms of what's actually going to happen,

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for example, with the next election. Morsi, on the one hand, disables

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the role of the judiciary, yet will pass an electoral law and expect

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judges to provide oversight at the next election F he pass as law that,

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you know, remember the last one was declared unconstitutional, if he

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passes a law that is simply unconstitutional, perhaps to even

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benefit his own party, there will be no legal challenge to it, and

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yet he needs the judiciary to play this role in supervising the

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elections. This is incred below unhealthy.

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There is nothing standing in his way, is there, he can do what he

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wants? It is not about that. We have to see what he can do and has

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already done. We all know we are sorry to say that the

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constitutional court has been doing a lot of negative things, everyone

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knows about it. He has taken powers without as much as a by-your-leave,

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he has acted undemocratically? was actually the revolution a

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democratic way of doing things? He has taken the decision for the

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parliament to come back. Why did he say at the time of the revolution

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that he was going to do this, nobody had any notice of this?

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tried to say the public prosecutor has to go, and he has refused that.

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The constitutional court, as we it has been announced before, that

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actually they were planning everything in the dark with the

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military Supreme Court before. So all the Egyptians have concern

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about the constitutional court and what they are taking, and the law

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for the election that has been set at the time of the revolution was

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approved and passed by the constitutional court. Do you have

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any faith that there will be elections in the next few months?

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There was talk about next summer, the constitution was meant to be

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ready by December? Obviously the President has just extended the

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term of the constitutional by two month, that was necessary. I think

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elections will go forward, that is not the question. The protection of

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the Constitutional Assembly from any judicial challenges, is also

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equally problematic, why would a President do that, it is not within

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his right. There are checks and balances set up in the system. This

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is clearly about pushing through a vision of the system of Government

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that the ruling party, which controls the Constitutional

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Assembly, is very keen on maintaining. I would agree there

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are problems with the judiciary, and judicial independence is a huge

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problem, but you don't address problems in the judiciary by

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increasing executive interference by saying the executive would be

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above the judiciary, it is not reform and will harm Egypt.

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Review is up next, matter that is in Glasgow.

:29:51.:29:55.

Tonight we have got a Hollywood comedy about bipolar disorder, has

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been tipped for an Oscar. The big Christmas offering from the

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National Theatre, John Lithgow will be telling us more about that.

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Cross-dressing from Mark Rylance in Twelfth Night, with Stephen Fry

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back on stage. And Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe sharing a bath.

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Sadly, not in the studio. Don't go away. That is just about

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it for tonight from Newsnight, Government code-breaker at GCHQ are

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