Inquiry must be 'proportionate'
Updated on 02 December 2008
Acting metropolitan police commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson appoints a senior colleague to investigate the arrest of a Tory shadow minister.
"There is going to be a time when all these things are going to be investigated and reviewed after the police have finished their work," Gordon Brown said this morning insisting that politicians shouldn't interfere with ongoing police inquiries.
The inquiry is intended to establish how the police handled the leak investigation that led to Damian Green's arrest.
The announcement of the two-week inquiry came after the home secretary Jacqui Smith asked Sir Paul for assurances that the investigation was being carried out in a "proportionate" manner.
"There is going to be a time when all these things are going to be investigated and reviewed after the police have finished their work" Gordon Brown this morning insisting that politicians shouldn't interfere with ongoing police inquiries.
