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Phone hacking: David Cameron bows to calls for public inquiries
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| Contributor | New Jerusalem |
| Last Edited | New Jerusalem Jul 06, 2011 07:59am |
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| Category | News |
| Author | The Guardian |
| Media | Newspaper - Guardian |
| News Date | Wednesday, July 6, 2011 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | David Cameron has bowed to pressure to hold public inquiries into the "absolutely disgusting" allegations of phone hacking by journalists at News of the World, and into the original police investigation into the scandal.
The prime minister responded to the outrage provoked by the phone-hacking crisis at the Sunday tabloid after it emerged that Scotland Yard has started to contact the relatives of victims of the 7 July 2005 attacks to warn them they were also targeted by the paper.
Pressed by the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, to conduct a full public inquiry, the prime minister said he was "appalled" by the revelations and agreed that it was important that inquiries were conducted that were "public, independent, and have public confidence".
He also signalled that News Corporation's takeover of BSkyB would be allowed to go ahead. He rejected Miliband's call for the matter to be referred to the Competition Commission, which he suggested would be illegal.
Miliband told Cameron he had made a "catastrophic error of judgment" when he hired Andy Coulson as his director of communications.
In a dramatic prime minister's question time dominated by the hacking scandal, Miliband also accused Cameron of being out of touch with public opinion on the issue of BSkyB.
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