Ed Miliband has called for Rupert Murdoch’s influence on the British media to be scaled back.
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- David Cameron invited his former communications chief Andy Coulson to Chequers in March, after he had resigned from No 10 over the hacking scandal.
- Ed Miliband said Sir Paul Stephenson, the head of the Metropolitan Police, had questions to answer about the hiring of ex-NoW executive Neil Wallis as an adviser after he left the paper. It has emerged that both Stephenson and fellow Met officer John Yates were friends with Wallis, who has now been arrested in the course of the hacking enquiry.
- The FBI have reportedly begun an investigation into allegations that the phones of 9/11 victims were hacked.
- The actor Jude Law is to sue The Sun over allegations it hacked his phone while he was in New York, potentially drawing News International into an investigation by the American authorities. He is already suing the NoW. News International have called the claim “a deeply cynical and deliberately mischievous attempt to draw The Sun into the phone-hacking issue”.
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