The process "must be clear, it must be legal, and it must be fair", Mr Cameron said.

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The Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson urged the first minister to ask a clear and straighforward question in the referendum on independence and for it to be fair and unambiguous.

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Now, to be clear, Mr Hunt secured the formal agreement of Ofcom and the Office of Fair Trading for all concessions extracted from News Corp and James Murdoch that were necessary to avoid a further review by the Competition Commission.

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To be fair, Will wants an intelligent discourse to flourish, and I agree that this would be really helpful, a clear and startling evolution of how politics plays out in America.

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"I do not recognize all of what Fred Michel said, but nonetheless I appreciate that my activities at times went too far and have, taken together, created the perception that News Corporation had too close a relationship with the department, contrary to the clear requirements set out by Jeremy Hunt and the permanent secretary that this needed to be a fair and scrupulous process, " he said.

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