The Leveson Inquiry, led by judge Sir Brian Leveson, was a public inquiry that looked at the culture, practices and ethics of the British press, following the phone hacking scandal in 2011. A series of public hearings were held throughout 2011 and 2012 and a report was published in November 2012. The Prime Minister at the time, David Cameron, under whose direction the inquiry had been established, said that he welcomed many of the findings, but declined to pass the necessary law. The second part of the inquiry was meant to be an investigation into the relationship between journalists and the police, but the Conservative Party‘s 2017 manifesto stated that the second part of the inquiry would be dropped entirely, and this was confirmed by Matt Hancock in a statement to the House of Commons in March 2018.