I suspect that in coming days, this will be the story…

Dear Twitter. Let’s try again. The important bit of the Hunt story is the text messages from the Spad, not the emails levesoninquiry.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

— Sam Coates Times (@SamCoatesTimes) April 24, 2012

Was Hunt spad using non-govt email to correspond w NewsCorp to avoid FOI? “adamsmithtih” doesn’t look like DCMS account bit.ly/I9SKdb

— David Taylor (@david_taylor) April 24, 2012

From way emails are formatted, looks like DCMS spad Adam Smith was using Gmail account to correspond with NewsCorp bit.ly/I9SKdb

— David Taylor (@david_taylor) April 24, 2012

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4. sunny hundal

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5. Peter Durant

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6. Siren of Brixton

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8. Terry Rubbish

   Who's going to follow the texts and Gmail trail? Looks like that's how Jeremy Hunt talked to Murdoch http://t.co/MSetSt8r

9. Jill Hayward

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11. Pam Lynch

    Who's going to follow the texts and Gmail trail? Looks like that's how Jeremy Hunt talked to Murdoch http://t.co/MSetSt8r

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