Who hurts scandals scandals perish. This must have thought yesterday Andrew Coulson spokesman of British Prime Minister David Cameron, who was forced to announce his resignation to the story of illegal wiretaps when he was editor of News of the World. "You can no longer continue working with all these distractions" - Coulson said, referring to investigations by journalists who have reopened the case broke in 2007.
The sword of Damocles that, years later, has fallen on the head of Coulson relates to the use of illegal wiretaps on phones of celebrities and show business of politics made by journalists of the News of the World, the tabloid Sunday Sun , which Coulson was director from 2003 to 2007. Under his direction, as many as 120 people would have had the phone under control to get the scoop to be published in the newspaper media magnate Rupert Murdoch. Among the victims of the most famous actress Sienna Miller, the current mayor of London Boris Johnson, the former Scotland Yard chief Ian Blair and even Prince William.
The police began to investigate the wiretaps in 2006 when he discovered that the cells of the prince was under control and stopped in January 2007, Clive Goodman, royal correspondent of the newspaper. Coulson resigned from office, insisting that he had never been aware of the recordings. In recent years, new details came to light with further arrests and trials in progress. Recently, Coulson was again called as a witness by police. And many have questioned whether the same Rupert Murdoch did not know the methods adopted by journalists brisk News of the World.
a brilliant career that ended in ignominy Coulson. After a childhood of poverty in a council house in Essex, Coulson is working for the newspaper pointed arch-conservative Daily Mail. Up to 34 years to be chosen to lead by Murdoch's News of the World, which led to increase sales with sensational scoop often obtained thanks to the illegal wiretapping. After his resignation from the newspaper, Cameron Coulson began to lead the Tory of communication in the elections that set them at Downing Street.
But now the prime minister said he was "saddened", the case could Coulson to be a dangerously hot potato that makes it clear how little substance there is in his promise of a "new politics". To take advantage of the leader of the Labour Ed Miliband that the case "raises doubts about the ability to judge" the prime minister. Of course the media hype about his former pupil does not make you happy even Rupert Murdoch who in recent days that the government expects will allow him to get hold of 61% stake in BSkyB, the leading commercial television in the United Kingdom in the face of pluralism and to 'anti-trust.