Cameron, Clegg and Osborne to appear before Leveson next week

David Cameron, George Osborne, Nick Clegg and Gordon Brown are among a string of major political figures due to appear before the Leveson Inquiry next week.

The Prime Minister and his predecessor, the Chancellor and the Deputy Prime Minister will give evidence to the inquiry into press standards, along with Labour leader Ed Miliband and former Prime Minister Sir John Major.

Deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman and Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond will also give evidence at London's Royal Courts of Justice.

Their evidence will come after a week's break in Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry.

At the last hearing before the adjournment, on May 31, Jeremy Hunt survived a six-hour grilling over his handling of the News Corporation bid for BSkyB.

Mr Cameron judged afterwards that the Culture Secretary had acted "properly" throughout the period when he was responsible for the bid and decided not to order an investigation into whether he had breached the ministerial code of conduct.

Next week at Leveson:

Monday: Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Chancellor George Osborne.

Tuesday: Harriet Harman, Sir John Major and Labour leader Ed Miliband.

Wednesday: Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Alex Salmond.

Thursday: Prime Minister David Cameron.