Cameron’s close ties to Brooks revealed in texts

Text messages sent by the former head of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspapers to Prime Minister David Cameron, published yesterday, have further revealed their close personal relationship.

Rebekah Brooks, who is awaiting trial on charges related to a phone-hacking scandal that prompted a public inquiry into media ethics, congratulated Cameron on a “brilliant” pre-election speech in 2009 that she said had moved her to tears.

“I cried twice. Will love ‘working together’,” Brooks said in one text message sent months before Cameron’s Conservatives formed a coalition government.