Yesterday in the House of Commons Ms Blackwood questioned the Prime Minister as part of the debate on public confidence in the media and the police.

She asked: “Does the Prime Minister agree with me that having failed the victims in 2006, when the Met and the Government ignored the ICO’s (Information Commissioner’s) warning, and having failed the victims in 2009 when the Met’s eight-hour review dismissed evidence in their own possession, we should not fail them now by simply apportioning blame. What we need is real reform of our police, our media and our politics?”

The Prime Minister replied: “We need to go back over these reports, back over the missed warnings, and the inquiry will be able to do that too, and we should use that information, use this frankly once-in-a-generation chance to finally get media regulation right.”