Labour’s former culture secretary Ben Bradshaw has called on the media watchdog to review its “fit and proper person” assessment of News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch.

During a session of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, Bradshaw asked Ofcom chair Colette Bowe whether the recent emergence of a recording appearing to show that Murdoch knew about the practice of making illegal payments to police and other public officials would lead to a review of the judgment.

Last September, the regulator ruled that Murdoch, as proprietor of BSkyB, was a “fit and proper person” to hold a UK broadcasting licence.