. >> joining me now is the bbc's naomi grimley. i suppose it's fair to say rebekah brooks is one of the star acts, and all eyes will be on maybe david cameron's judgment. >> that's right. she was at the center of the social network between the politicians on one hand and the murdoches on the other. she became friends with tony blair, gordon brown, and david cameron. david cameron goes to her wedding and she marries a friend of david cameron. as you mentioned, the whole issue boils down to judgment really and was it sensible of the prime minister to get so close to her given that she was presiding over news international at a stage when all these allegations about phone hacking have been swirling around really for years. >> naomi, once that inquiry begins and rebekah brooks is having her say, we'll have more from you as well. many thanks. some other stories now -- the u.k. government says it will neither confirm nor deny claims that the undercover agency foiled an al qaeda plot to blow up a plane with an underwear bomb held a britis

>> well, the second part, as you can hear there, with me to just work through some of this is naomi grimley, our political correspondent. this is pretty convoluted stuff and very detailed, naomi, nonetheless, critical in terms of what role jeremy hunt indeed did have with news corporation and to what extent he was a compromise. >> that's right. the inquiry is very interested about the murdoch bid for bskyb. this was a multimillion dollar, $12 billion billion, in fact, for the bid for the bskyb. basically they're trying to probe to see whether the cabinet minister involved, jeremy hunt, got too close to news corporation in the course of that bid when he should have been keeping them at arm's length. and the inquiry has unearthed all this email traffic, text messages from mr. hunt's advisor to a lobbyist at news corporation. now, at the moment, mr. hunt is just saying, well, i didn't know about that, that was my advisor, and i wasn't responsible at the time. obviously they're probing to see if he knows morn he's let on. >> he's under lots of pressure to resign. he was very keen to get in earl

and name owee -- and naomi grimley watching it with me. i know he was very keen at that time to really tackle what he felt was an unhealthy relationship. he pulled back from it. what's interesting? >> well, he's basically saying that he made a decision not to take on the media culture, because if he had, it would have been clearing the decks of government. he said it would have been a long, pro tracted battle. so he says when he was prime minister, he decided to manage the media rather than actually confront the culture. and what he's talking about is the power of newspapers in particular to, if you didn't necessarily do what they want, to write editorials. >> he's raising something that a lot of people have said recently, can you separate -- will this call for a separation of news and comments after this, so that you have to have unbiased reporting of news, but obviously an editorial and comment and features whenever you want, because this is what the labour government felt they were up against. >> that's right. they're looking into wheth