‘We’re in this together,’ Brooks texted Cameron

David Cameron received a text message from Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper boss saying they were “in this together“, a press ethics inquiry heard during testimony from the prime minister.

The 2009 text from Rebekah Brooks — who now faces criminal charges relating to the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World tabloid — raised fresh questions about Cameron’s links to Murdoch’s US-based News Corporation.

But during five hours of televised evidence at the Leveson Inquiry, Cameron repeatedly denied making secret deals with Murdoch’s empire in exchange for the political support of the mogul’s newspapers.