Phone revelations are ‘wicked beyond contempt’

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL has described the latest revelations of phone hacking as “beyond words and wicked beyond contempt”.

The former director of communications at Downing Street accused the police force, News International — the parent company of the News Of The World — and politicians of running away from the situation.

He also said the first police investigation was a complete joke: “They completely bought the line that it was all the work of one rogue reporter — they must have known this was not true. They have had evidence of this systematic industrial phone hacking for some time and this stuff is only coming out now. How have the police not found this out before?”