Rebekah Brooks at the Leveson inquiry – key points

• An email from News Corp lobbyist Frédéric Michel to Brooks claimed culture secretary Jeremy Hunt wanted advice 'to guide his and No 10's positioning'.

• Brooks defended 'Sarah's law' campaign to name sex offenders but said she has some regrets.

• She denied she asked then secretary of state Ed Balls to sack social worker Sharon Shoesmith over the Baby P case.

• Brooks rejected claims she made threats to MPs Chris Bryand and Tom Watson.

• Brooks discussed hacking allegations with David Cameron in 2009-11; he phoned her to ask about it in October 2010.

• She had an "informal role" in lobbying for News Corporation's bid for pay-TV broadcaster BSkyB, discussing it with the prime minister and the chancellor, George Osborne.

• Brooks met Cameron on at least three occasions over Christmas 2010.

• Brooks denies Cameron texted her 12 times a day – says it was more like once a week, sometimes twice.

• Cameron signed off texts "DC" and sometimes "LOL" – until Brooks explained this meant "laugh out loud", not "lots of love".

• Brooks received direct or indirect messages of support from politicians including Cameron, Osborne and former prime minister Tony Blair when left she left News International in July 2011.

• Brooks said Gordon Brown was "very aggressive" after the Sun criticised his letter to the bereaved mother of an army soldier.

• She disagreed with News Corporation boss, Rupert Murdoch, on some political and editorial issues.

• Brooks spoke to Murdoch "very frequently" when she was editor of the Sun.

• Murdoch hosted her 40th birthday party, which Blair attended.

• She was "not embarrassed" to be described as Murdoch's "top priority" when he was in London dealing with the phone-hacking crisis in July 2011

• Blair and his aides were a "constant presence in my life for years".

• She said Cameron didn't have input to the timing of the Sun switching its support from Labour to the Tories in September 2009; the paper had planned to switch in June 2009.

• Brooks said it was not fair to say politicians lived in fear of newspapers.