UK PM Cameron defends ill-fated Andy Coulson hireReported by SeattlePI.com on Thursday, 14 June 2012 (on June 14, 2012)
|
UK PM Cameron defends ill-fated Andy Coulson hire
Associated Press
Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Updated 06:41 a.m., Thursday, June 14, 2012
LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday defended his ill-fated decision to make disgraced tabloid editor Andy Coulson his communications director, even though Coulson had already been tarnished in the phone hacking scandal. Cameron said he had received assurances that Coulson was not involved in phone hacking — but those proved hollow when Coulson was forced to resign from his senior government post last year after new revelations about widespread wrongdoing at his newspaper. Cameron's decision to bring Coulson into his inner circle has left the prime minister open to questions about his judgment in choosing a man who was already linked to the phone hacking scandal. The prime minister has faced criticism for the way his government handled Murdoch's bid to take full control of British Sky Broadcasting, a lucrative satellite broadcaster in which it already had a 39 percent stake. In his testimony, Cameron spelled out his media strategy when he became Conservative Party leader, saying he tried to "win back" newspapers that had traditionally backed his party but had been successfully wooed by former Prime Minister Tony Blair and the Labour Party.
Links:  Full news story
|
|
|
| Recent related news |
| |
guardian.co.uk
2 days ago | Madeleine was nearly four when she went missing from her family's holiday apartment in Praia de Luz,... |
guardian.co.uk
3 days ago | Warren Gatland's Lions pack will lay the foundations for success but the latent artistry in the backs... |
guardian.co.uk
6 days ago | It's fun to watch one ambitious Tory outmanoeuvre another, and no doubt Ed Miliband will be delighted... |
This is
6 days ago | This is Staffordshire --
AH well, you never thought Stoke, of all people, would do anything to... |
| |
|
|
Facebook
E-mail
Twitter
Mixx
StumbleUpon
FriendFeed