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UK minister survives vote on Murdoch ties

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

UK minister survives vote on Murdoch ties
LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers granted a reprieve Wednesday to the embattled culture minister, ruling that he should not be investigated over allegations that he favored the bid by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to take control of a satellite broadcaster. [...] the vote split the two parties in Britain's coalition government, with the Conservatives backing Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt and the junior Liberal Democrat party abstaining on the opposition-sponsored vote in the House of Commons. In a pointed rebuke to the Conservatives, Deputy Prime Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats, had asked his lawmakers to abstain on whether Hunt should be investigated by a standards watchdog over News Corp.'s effort to take full control of BSkyB. 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 eavesdropped on the voicemails of celebrities, politicians and people thrust into the public eye.

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