and offcom and dcmss at this time. so this is a side of that where they're saying, no, it's not as bad as you think when we were asserting that it actually -- there were problems. >> page 66-01 -- pardon me, 01 707 -- >> which page, sorry? >> 66 in your version. just had an update on today's events with j.h. we seem to have been able to weaken most of the arguments of the complaints and labor and expose the political vast approach and to take and mention including independent board and sky news which is not unhelpful. given the opposition has very few arguments on the plurality, they decided to focus on the process and political bias. and then at the end, j.h. believes we're in a good place tonight. you're being given private information about the secretary of state's current view, aren't you? >> i think it's a private view. i think they're just saying, calm down, it's still, you know, we're still -- if we were upset about this combifpk what else was going on out there and can't remember exactly the sequence, what was

friend confirm that whatever his advisers may have said, the only advice he took was from offcom and he followed it? will he agree that in circumstances like this the first thing the opposition does is to call for a judicial inquiry? given that is precisely what we have, is it not sensible to wait until it completes its work and not jump to conclusions? >> my right hon. friend is exactly right on that and i think it's curious the leader of the opposition -- the leader of the opposition said i think it's right the inquiry take its course. the most important thing is the inquiry gets to the bottom of what happened: labour did, what the conservatives did, and we reach a judgment about that. why is he trying to prevent that? >> the secretary and prime minister said today that they always follow advice. they did not. this should have been referred to the competition commission. why did he change that policy? >> i know he was disappointed because he is looking for a smoking gun that indicated this process had not been properly pursued. the very first decision i did was to say [unintelligib