Sentences with phrase «lead on phone hacking»

The Committee also took the lead on phone hacking, and despite our well - known differences on that matter, it has been an honour to work alongside all my fellow members, past and present, from all parties.

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Attention after today's hearings will focus on Thursday's evidence sessions, when Peter Clarke, the former deputy assistance commissioner who led the day - to - day work of the 2006 phone - hacking inquiry and former assistant commissioner Andy Hayman, his direct superior at the time, will appear.

In July 2011, following the revelation that the News of the World had paid private investigators to hack into the phones of Milly Dowler, as well as the families of murder victims and deceased servicemen, Miliband called for News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks to resign, urged David Cameron to establish a public, judge - led inquiry into the scandal, and announced that he would force a Commons vote on whether to block the News International bid for a controlling stake in BSkyB.

Mr Yates had said on numerous occasions that their leads in the case were restricted by legal advice saying that only messages which had not already been heard by their intended recipients would qualify for a criminal charges in a phone - hacking case.

Then the judge - led inquiry said it could not discuss matters of Andy Coulson which related to a possible court case on phone - hacking.

Leading from the front — on phone - hacking, banking reform, putting the crisis of the «squeezed middle» on the political agenda before anyone else.

Wallis was arrested last week on suspicion of phone hacking, and the furore surrounding his hiring by the Metropolitan police between October 2008 and September 2009 has led to the resignation of Sir Paul Stephenson, the Metropolitan police commissioner, and the Met's assistant commissioner John Yates, who both gave evidence on Tuesday.

Mr Miliband will be buoyed by the way he led the way on the phone - hacking row, with Mr Cameron adopting his policies days or sometimes hours after he proposed them.

William Hague, the foreign secretary, was also asked about the phone - hacking trial on Sunday, telling the same programme that the exposure of the scandal had led to a «greater distance now between politicians and the press».

On 18 July 2011, it was announced that Elizabeth Filkin would lead an inquiry related to the News International phone hacking scandal which would «recommend changes to links between the police and the media, including how to extend transparency.»