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Phone hacking: Andrew Neil makes mincemeat of PCC chairman

Peta Buscombe
Baroness Peta Buscombe. Photograph: Stuart Clarke/Rex Features

Not a good outing for Press Complaints Commission chairman Peta Buscombe on BBC2's The Daily Politics on Tuesday lunchtime. Andrew Neil made mincemeat of her over the phone-hacking scandal. She appeared so rattled by his questioning she even forgot his name, calling him Neil twice, just over a minute into the heated exchange. "No it's Andrew Neil, or Mr Neil. I don't mind which," shot back the former Sunday Times editor. Perhaps Buscombe thought she was speaking to one of her staff.

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