News Corp ‘paid Coulson as he aided Cameron’

NEWS Corp funded the former editor of the News of the World tabloid when he worked for David Cameron in opposition, the BBC said, in new evidence of the close links between Britain’s prime minister and Rupert Murdoch.

News Corp ‘paid  Coulson as he aided Cameron’

The Labour opposition and political analysts have repeatedly questioned Cameron’s judgment in hiring Andy Coulson as his spokesman in 2007, shortly after the editor quit over the jailing of his royal reporter for phone hacking.

The decision to appoint a man so closely associated with Murdoch to such an important position was proof, they say, that he was desperate to secure the News Corp chief’s support.

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