Sentences with phrase «hacking scandal closer»
While the comments threaten to bring the phone - hacking scandal closer to the prime minister's door, the two men's assessment of the offer made to Mr Llewellyn was quite different.
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The phone hacking scandal has not only sunk a venerable newspaper, but exposed an uncomfortably close relationship among British politicians, press and police.
Rupert Murdoch's efforts to limit the damage of the phone - hacking scandal by closing down the News of the World appeared to have failed today, as the row deepened significantly.
The relationship between Rupert Murdoch's News UK executives and David Cameron's Conservative party was scandalously close and provided the right conditions for the phone - hacking scandal to flourish.
News of the World David Wooding claimed a much - rumoured Sunday Sun paper would not easily grab readers from his paper which has just closed amid a phone hacking scandal.
However, I am given to understand from a source close to the matter that the committee suspended its investigation «out of respect for criminal proceedings» against other News International employees who were arrested in the aftermath of the hacking scandal.
Mockridge last year was dispatched to replace Rebekah Brooks, who was forced to resign over News International's hacking and bribery scandal at the company's now - closed News of the World and faces a criminal trial next year.
The publishing company was planning to invite Mandelson, one of Tony Blair's closest aides and a former cabinet minister, to help prepare its beleaguered chief executive for her parliamentary appearance nine days after the tabloid was closed in the wake of the phone - hacking scandal.
The reception will also be held at Spencer House, close to Murdoch's London flat where he was photographed with Brooks in 2011 after jetting in to take control of the phone - hacking scandal and declaring she was his priority.