Mediagazer: News Corporation was given private select committee details, suggests Tom Watson (Lisa O'Carroll/Guardian)

7:55 AM ET, May 3, 2012

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

News Corporation was given private select committee details, suggests Tom Watson — Labour MP Tom Watson has suggested that News Corporation was given details of private discussions about the culture select committee's controversial phone hacking report, in an escalating row with his Conservative counterpart Louise Mensch.

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