Britain's phone-hacking scandal: Wider still and wider | The Economist

Britain's phone-hacking scandal: Wider still and wider | The Economist

JUST two months ago, David Cameron was a prime minister in his pomp: triumphant in a referendum that rejected voting reform and magisterially untroubled by his Labour opponent, Ed Miliband. On July 18th he was asked by a journalist whether he would consider resigning. For all that British public life is being ravaged by allegations of voice-mail-hacking and police-bribing at the News of the World, his hiring in 2007 of Andy Coulson,

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