John Whittingdale

As chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Whittingdale led the phone-hacking inquiry that questioned Rupert and James Murdoch in July 2011, the session in which a protester attacked Rupert Murdoch with a foam pie. The committee's 2012 report found News International's senior executives had misled Parliament, a rare formal finding. The Leveson Inquiry did much of the deeper work, but the committee's evidence sessions kept the issue alive when it could have faded.