Cameron must answer.

In this space one week ago I said that responsibility for the government's handling of the Murdoch bid for a complete takeover of BSkyB rested with the prime minister because he had made the decision to give the task to the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt whose close links with the Murdochs and support for their bid were well known. It has taken The Times a week to reach the same conclusion; in a leading article yesterday it allowed that Mr Cameron “will have to explain, when he appears before the Inquiry, why he thought it a good idea to appoint someone who favoured the bid so strongly”.

However, despite Mr Hunt's often naive evidence to the Leveson Inquiry on Thursday, the prime minister apparently still backs his own decision.
Within minutes of Hunt's six-hour evidence to the Inquiry, Downing Street said that calls for the case to be passed to the independent advisor on the ministerial code, Sir Alex Allan, would not be heeded. Labour believes, with good reason, that Mr Hunt broke the code and it plans a parliamentary debate and vote on the matter.

David Cameron is due to appear at the Leveson Inquiry later this month.
His own integrity and that of his government will depend on whether he is able to justify his actions and those of his ministers in this case.