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Tim Bullivant, a retired chartered accountant from Grafham, England, votes Conservative. He says he’s worried that missteps are trashing Prime Minister David Cameron’s reputation as a competent leader.
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News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch had “selective amnesia” about events including meetings with former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher about 30 years ago, a lawyer for a media-ethics inquiry in Britain said.
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The media-ethics inquiry triggered by News Corp.’s phone-hacking scandal will hear evidence this week from the former chief executive officer of its U.K. unit and the tabloid editor who resigned over the practice in 2007.
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Prime Minister David Cameron said his government needs to do more to get the British economy moving as he vowed there will be going back on his plans to tackle the budget deficit.
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News Corp.’s ex-private detective who was jailed in 2007 for hacking into mobile-phone messages asked the U.K. Supreme Court to let him withhold evidence in civil lawsuits that might incriminate him in a criminal case.
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U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron and top ministers won formal legal status at an inquiry triggered by News Corp.’s phone-hacking scandal after evidence disclosed at the probe led to calls for one Cabinet member to resign.
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Yesterday’s split among lawmakers on the U.K. Parliament’s Culture Committee over whether to criticize Rupert Murdoch highlighted again the closeness between News Corp. and Prime Minister David Cameron’s Tory party.
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Rupert Murdoch said last week he was the victim of a cover-up over phone-hacking at one of his U.K. tabloids. Lawmakers may say tomorrow how far up News Corp. they believe the lies went.
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As regulators expand a probe into whether News Corp. should retain its stake in British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc, Rupert Murdoch’s testimony in a media- ethics inquiry turned public attention to the amount of time U.K. lawmakers have spent with the 81-year-old mogul, including trips on private planes and a family yacht in Greece.
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Rupert Murdoch told a media-ethics inquiry triggered by News Corp.’s phone-hacking scandal in Britain that he never sought favors from any prime minister to bolster the company’s commercial interests.
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