'The Prime Minister has held a secret dinner with James Murdoch amid the government's attempt to decide on the Murdoch media empire after a flurry of resignations and dismissals over telephone hacking at Murdoch's News of the World and his bid to buy BskyB, the daily Independent reported.

The Labor Opposition questioned whether Cameron had broken the ministerial code of conduct by meeting the chairman of News Corporation in Europe and Asia.

Cameron's secret meeting with James comes only a few days after the premier stripped Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat Business Secretary, of the power to decide whether News Corp should be allowed to buy the 61 percent of BSkyB it does not already own.'

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