Brown ‘victim of hacking’

LABOUR deputy leader Harriet Harman has called for police to investigate allegations of phone hacking by journalists, amid reports that Gordon Brown may have been among the victims.

Brown was said to have written at least one letter to the Metropolitan Police over concerns that his mobile phone was being targeted while he was chancellor of the exchequer, according to the Independent on Sunday.

The concerns were said to have coincided with the latter stages of Andy Coulson’s editorship of the News of the World.

Coulson announced on Friday that he was resigning as David Cameron’s director of communications amid continuing allegations of phone hacking by the paper’s journalists while he was in charge.

Brown’s office declined to comment on suggestions that the former prime minister had raised the matter with the police.