The idea of a public enquiry into phone hacking got the bum’s rush from David Cameron over the weekend. He said the police inquiry would settle any issues and urged detectives to "follow the evidence wherever it goes".
Of course a number of folks would like to know if he was thinking of former employee Andy Coulson when he added that further prosecutions were clearly "an option".
The PM told Sky News: "I'm not sure anyone fully knew how widespread it was," but quickly qualified his mystification by adding, “Let me be clear: phone hacking is wrong, phone hacking is illegal and the police and prosecuting authorities should follow the evidence wherever it goes without fear or favour."
But he stopped short of a public inquiry, saying: "There is always a difficulty of holding inquiries when you have active police investigations... The law is perfectly clear, the law doesn't need I think to be changed."
The Independent notes that News International is facing a second criminal inquiry by Scotland Yard. Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick said one was possible following NI's chief executive Rebekah Brooks' remarks to MPs in 2003 that: "We have paid the police for information in the past."
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