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UK government split over News Corp. case

Reported by SeattlePI.com on Wednesday, 13 June 2012 (on June 13, 2012)

UK government split over News Corp. case
LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers will vote Wednesday on whether to investigate the culture minister over allegations he favored Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. in its bid to take control of a satellite broadcaster, with the coalition government split on whether to back him. Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has asked his legislators to abstain on a vote on whether Jeremy Hunt should be investigated by a standards watchdog over News Corp.'s effort to take full control of BSkyB, in which it holds a 39 percent stake. The parliamentary debate is the latest twist in Britain's long running phone hacking scandal, which exploded last year when it emerged that reporters at Murdoch's News of the World tabloid, had hacked into the voicemails of celebrities, politicians and people thrust into the public eye.

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