Cash For Honours - Details of Ruth Turner's Allegations Revealed
BBC NEWS | Politics | Aide alleged Levy 'lie' request
Ruth Turner wrote of her concerns that "Lord Levy had asked her to lie for him".
This emerged in court when the BBC was granted permission to report the reasons an injunction was served about a cash-for-honours news story.
The judge who granted the injunction at the police's request said "there is a substantial element of truth in what the intended BBC broadcast was to say".
Lord Levy, Labour's fundraiser, and all others involved deny wrong-doing....
The police requested the injunction because they did not wish certain individuals to know in advance the nature of the document that they possessed.
In particular, they wished to put the document to Ruth Turner, Downing Street's director of government relations, who wrote the document.
They also wanted to discuss it with John McTernan, No 10's director of political operations.
They were worried that the individuals could have constructed or co-ordinated a response. ...
It also emerged on Monday that the document is several pages long and contains more information that is of interest to the police than that which has already been broadcast by the BBC.
