«This is a victory for people up and down this country who have been appalled by
the revelations of the phone hacking scandal and the failure of News International to take responsibility,» Labour leader Ed Miliband said.
Goodman was arrested again, along with Andy Coulson, on 8 July 2011 after new
revelations of the phone hacking were made public.
In 2011, when the new
revelations of phone hacking broke, Hinton offered his resignation and it was accepted.
Not exact matches
Revelations about the snooping activities
of GCHQ - which saw diplomats» emails reportedly
hacked and their
phone call activity monitored by a team
of 45 analysts - come after US whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the UK could have benefited from an American snooping programme known as «Prism».
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.
Hunt said that the
revelation over the
hacking of Milly Dowler's
phone was significant for him as it raised concerns about a corporate governance issue.
He retains the support
of Mr Cameron and the Chancellor George Osborne as well as his own ultra-loyal band
of press officers, who insist that, despite an endless stream
of revelations about the affair, no evidence has emerged that he knew about
phone hacking by his reporters.
This was a truth universally acknowledged, including by politicians and press, after the
revelations over the
hacking of Milly Dowler's
phone in 2011.
Before the
revelation that Milly Dowler's
phone had been
hacked brought the
phone hacking story to its height our daily voting intention tracker was showing a steady Labour lead
of around 5 - 7 points.
She has been facing mounting pressure to step down from all sides following the
revelations about
phone hacking by journalists at the News
of the World which she used to edit.
Rebekah Brooks last night told the News
of the World's staff that she had no option but to close Britain's best - selling Sunday newspaper because it had become a «toxic brand» because
of the slew
of phone -
hacking revelations.
«Who Knows» speaks both to the context
of 21st century surveillance (from the Snowden
revelations to the ubiquity
of CCTV cameras in urban space) as well to the cultures
of gossip, scandal seeking,
phone hacking and to the playful and flirtatious eye that people keep on each other through social media.
For some years in the early and mid 2000s, a routine form
of news - gathering in the Mirror Group was
phone hacking — listening to voicemails left for celebrities by their friends, and then dishing up
revelations in their papers.