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John Whittingdale, the dominatrix, and the papers - BBC Newsnight
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April 12, 2016
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5:57Now PlayingJohn Sweeney reports on John Whittingdale's confirmation to Newsnight that he had had a relationship with a woman who turned out - unbeknownst to him - to be a sex worker - a fact HE discovered from a reporter. The details of that relationship went unpublished - to the surprise of many. Maybe the newspapers never considered a story about the private lives of two consenting adults worth running. Or maybe there were more political reasons behind the decision to hold back. We may never know. But John Whittingdale - who was at the time - head of the Culture select committee - now sits at the very top of a department who's job is to regulate newspapers. Indeed, he is currently overseeing a whole new regulatory framework under consideration in the wake of the Leveson inquiry. So has his position been compromised?
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