Lord Justice Leveson today flatly rejected any suggestion that his report into press standards may have been tainted by an alleged relationship between counsel for the inquiry and a barrister who represented celebrities.

The judge insisted that "every finding of fact, every conclusion and every recommendation" in last year's report was his alone and that barrister Carine Patry Hoskins had no influence over them.

His comments came in a letter to MP Rob Wilson, who has written to the Bar Standards Board asking itto consider whether there may have been a breach of its code of conduct as a result of personal relations between Ms Patry Hoskins and David Sherborne.