Last week we learned that David Cameron may have texted Rebekah Brooks “a dozen” times a day. Today, courtesy of News International’s the Times (£), we learn of some of the contents. An updated version of Times journalist Francis Elliott and Independent journalist James Hanning’s biography of the PM, Cameron: Practically a Conservative, reveals that Cameron texted Brooks in the week she resigned as chief executive of News International to tell her “to keep her head up” (not a direct quote).
In a revelation that will certainly brighten Labour’s morning, we also learn that such contact then came to an “abrupt halt”, with Cameron dispatching an emissary to explain that “Ed Miliband had him on the run.” And there’s more: Brooks and Cameron texted each other to make sure they were not seen together at the Heythrop point-to-point; Cameron asked the Met to open a review into the Madeleine McCann case in May 2011 as “a favour” for Brooks; and Royal courtiers warned that Buckingham Palace would “think poorly” of a decision to take Andy Coulson into Downing Street.
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