As ever in the murky world of UK press and politics, things are seldom what they appear to seem and the nagging perception of high-level duplicity continues to stick like a foam pie. It is a situation not helped by further cracks that have appeared in the phone-hacking facade diligently created by the main players.
So forget the global economic crisis, the biggie for David Cameron, according to the Independent, is the allegation that the guy used by the PM's office to do the pre-employment vetting on Andy Coulson was himself an experienced investigator with “strong links” to the newspaper group that owned the News of the World.
The paper states that media chief Coulson was given a low form of clearance, which was reportedly handled by a branch of Control Risks, a private security company with good connections to the Conservative Party. A more “developed” form of security scrutiny could not be completed due the former editor’s resignation from his Downing Street post in January this year.
It remains to be seen whether this story develops legs. The same can probably be said of yesterday’s reports of how Rebekah Brooks remains in the News International payroll despite her high-profile resignation as chief executive last month.
It’s a funny old world, Rupe.
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