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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/no-spite-over-hacking-labour-told.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Labour frontbenchers have been told not to attack Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation 'out of spite'" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-no-spite-over-hacking-labour-told.jpg" alt="Labour frontbenchers have been told not to attack Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation 'out of spite'"/></a></p>
<p>Senior Labour figures have been ordered to show restraint on the phone hacking row and avoid attacking Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s News International &#8220;out of spite&#8221;.</p>
<p>An email from leader Ed Miliband&#8217;s director of strategy Tom Baldwin reportedly said the media mogul&#8217;s News of the World should not be singled out for criticism over the controversy. It also warned against linking phone hacking with Mr Murdoch&#8217;s ongoing bid to take full control of BSkyB.</p>
<p>The missive, leaked to the New Statesman magazine, was apparently forwarded on to the shadow cabinet by the Labour Party press office on January 27.</p>
<p>Setting out the line frontbenchers should take when talking about the situation, Mr Baldwin &#8211; a former journalist at the Murdoch-owned Times &#8211; wrote: &#8220;On phone hacking, we believe the police should thoroughly investigate all allegations.</p>
<p>&#8220;But this is not just an issue about News International. Almost every media organisation in the country may end up becoming embroiled in these allegations.</p>
<p>&#8220;This goes to the root of a wider problem in public life. MPs are taking a hard look at themselves in the mirror over expenses. It is time the media did so too over the way it conducts itself. Frontbench spokespeople who want to talk about their personal experiences of being tapped should make it clear they are doing just that &#8211; speaking from personal experience.</p>
<p>&#8220;We must guard against anything which appears to be attacking a particular newspaper group out of spite.&#8221;</p>
<p>The email asks that shadow cabinet teams do not conflate the BSkyB bid with phone hacking. &#8220;These issues should not be linked. One is a competition issue, the other an allegation of criminal activity,&#8221; it says.</p>
<p>The message continues: &#8220;On BSkyB, we have been consistent in calling for fair play. We believe ministers should conduct themselves properly in what is a quasi-judicial process. We said Vince Cable showed he was incapable of behaving fairly towards News Corp.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have since raised questions about whether Jeremy Hunt can be fully impartial given his record of past statements. We do believe the bid should be referred to the Competition Commission and think Hunt should get on with it.&#8221;</p>
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