Hugh Grant criticises Labour over phone-hacking silence

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Actor Hugh Grant has criticised Sir Keir Starmer and Labour for failing to act on promises made to phone-hacking victims. He said the party, while in opposition, pledged to fully implement the Leveson Inquiry’s recommendations but since taking office there has been "dead silence". Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Having said for 12 years, it's OK, guys, the Tories are awful, but once we're here, we'll take care of this.

00:08Suddenly, as the election loomed last year, dead silence.

00:14Dead silence from Labour, and since they've been in government, absolutely nothing.

00:20And on the contrary, what we now see is a very depressing repetition of what happened under the Blair government,

00:30where you have a Labour government sucking up to the very organisations that perpetrated these abuses in the first place.

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