The Leveson Inquiry into press standards is ‘deeply flawed”, according to the editor of The Independent.

Chris Blackhurst has also claimed that ‘if the Guardian had actually realised how to work a mobile phone’the inquiry would never have been set up.

‘They thought it was journalists who were deleting messages on Milly Dowler’s phone – it wasn’t, they just happened to be deleted as time went on,’he said at a City University debate held in association with Press Gazette last night.