Paul Dacre, it transpires, may only be the warm-up act today for Kelvin MacKenzie. The Daily Mail columnist and former Sun editor launched a full-frontal assault on both the Leveson inquiry and David Cameron.
According to a final draft of his speech released this afternoon to the Evening Standard, he will begin by asking: "Where is our great prime minister who ordered this ludicrous inquiry?"
He says: "The only reason we are all here is due to one man's action – Cameron's obsessive arse-kissing over the years of Rupert Murdoch. Tony Blair was pretty good, as was [Gordon] Brown. But Cameron was the daddy."
After sarcastically accusing Cameron and his colleagues, "especially Michael Gove", of genuflecting before Murdoch, he turns on Rebekah Brooks.
He makes it clear he had little time for the recently departed News International chief executive, and his former colleague, who he describes as Murdoch's handmaiden.
He says: "Cameron had clearly gone quite potty. And the final proof that he was certifiable was his hiring of my friend Andy Coulson."
