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Basildon
Coordinates: 51°34′34″N 0°29′19″E / 51.5761°N 0.4886°E / 51.5761; 0.4886
Basildon (
/ˈbæzɪldən/)[citation needed] is a town located in the Basildon District of the county of Essex, England.
It lies 25 miles (40 km) east of Central London and 11 miles (18 km) south of the county town of Chelmsford. Nearby towns include Billericay to the north, Wickford northeast and South Benfleet to the east.
It was designated as a new town after World War II in 1948 to accommodate the London population overspill, created from the conglomeration of four small villages, namely Pitsea, Laindon, Basildon and Vange (the new town took the name Basildon as it was the most central of the four villages).
The local government district of Basildon, formed in 1974 was first led by Ryan O'Rourke and encapsulates a larger area than the town itself; the two neighbouring towns of Billericay and Wickford, as well as rural villages and smaller settlements set among the surrounding countryside, fall within its borders.
Basildon Town is one of the most densely populated areas in the County of Essex, mostly due to its influx of families from the Boroughs of London. However, it is thought that Basildon's population will continue to increase as many people are re-locating to the Town from the Boroughs of London, Essex and the Country. This is mostly due to Basildon's booming economy in industrial areas, the Towns tertiary sector, and its close travel link to Central London.
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Billericay
Coordinates: 51°37′41″N 0°25′06″E / 51.628°N 0.4184°E / 51.628; 0.4184
Billericay (
i/bɪləˈrɪkiː/ BIL-ə-RIK-ee) is a town and civil parish in the Basildon borough of Essex, England. It lies within the London Basin, has a population of around 40,000, and constitutes a commuter town 28 miles (45 km) east of central London. The town has three secondary schools and a variety of open spaces. It is thought to have been occupied since the Bronze Ages.
Some of the earliest records of human occupation of Billericay are the burial mounds in Norsey Wood: evidence of occupation in the Bronze and Iron Ages. Evidence of Roman occupation has been found at a number of locations in the town and there may have been a small cavalry fort at Blunts Wall.
The Saxons did not settle in the centre of Billericay. They established themselves two miles south, at Great Burstead. In the late 10th century it was known as 'Burhstede'. Billericay was not mentioned in the Domesday Book, as it lay within Great Burstead. At this time the parish church for Billericay was at Great Burstead. In 1291 the name 'Byllyrica' is first recorded. This is believed to be from a medieval Latin word, bellerīca, meaning 'dyehouse or tanhouse'.
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BSkyB
British Sky Broadcasting Group plc (commonly known as BSkyB; trading as Sky) is a British satellite broadcasting, broadband and telephony services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, with operations in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Formed in 1990 by the equal merger of Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting, BSkyB is the largest pay-TV broadcaster in the United Kingdom and Ireland with over 11 million subscribers.
BSkyB is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It had a market capitalisation of approximately £12.6 billion (US$19.8 billion) as of 23 December 2011, the 29th-largest of any company with a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange.News Corporation owns a 39.14 per cent controlling stake in the company.
Sky Television was set up by Rupert Murdoch in 1989. The SES Astra satellite network began with the launch of Astra 1A in 1989. Sky Television plc was the first customer of Astra and leased four transponders on Astra 1A ahead of its launch. Alan Sugar's Amstrad began manufacturing the original sateillite dishes and set-top boxes, something which it still does today. With the launch of more Astra satellites from 1991 onward, Sky was able to begin expanding its services, (the Astra satellites were all orbiting co-located at 19.2° east so they could be received using the same satellite dish).
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Downing Street
Downing Street in London, England has for over two hundred years housed the official residences of two of the most senior British cabinet ministers: the First Lord of the Treasury, an office now synonymous with that of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and the Second Lord of the Treasury, an office held by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Prime Minister's official residence is 10 Downing Street; the Chancellor's official residence is next door at Number 11. The Government's Chief Whip has an official residence at Number 9.
Downing Street is located in Whitehall in central London, a few minutes' walk from the Houses of Parliament and a little farther from Buckingham Palace. The street was built in the 1680s by Sir George Downing (1632–1689) on the site of a mansion called Hampden House. The houses on the west side of the street were demolished in the nineteenth century to make way for government offices, now occupied by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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Ofcom
The Office of Communications (Welsh: Y Swyddfa Gyfathrebiadau), commonly known as Ofcom, is the government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom. Ofcom was initially established by the Office of Communications Act 2002 and received its full authority from the Communications Act 2003.
Ofcom has wide-ranging powers across the television, radio, internet, telecoms and postal sectors. It has a statutory duty to represent the interests of citizens and consumers by promoting competition and protecting the public from what might be considered harmful or offensive material. Some of the main areas Ofcom presides over are licensing, research, codes and policies, complaints, competition and protecting the radio spectrum from abuse.
The creation of Ofcom was announced in the Queen's Speech to the UK parliament in June 2001. The new body, which would replace several existing authorities, was conceived as a "super-regulator" to oversee media channels that were rapidly converging through digital transmission.
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Wickford
Coordinates: 51°36′41″N 0°31′15″E / 51.6114°N 0.5207°E / 51.6114; 0.5207
Wickford is a town in the south of the English county of Essex, with a population of more than 32,500. Located approximately 30 miles (50 km) east of London, it falls within the District of Basildon along with Basildon, Billericay, Laindon and Pitsea.
It has become a commuter town, serving the City of London through its direct connection to Liverpool Street through the Southend Victoria line, where a train to London takes approximately 40 minutes. The town can also be easily reached via the road network by the A127 from London and Southend-on-Sea or the A130 from Chelmsford.
Wickford is a fairly small town with a main high street. It includes shops such as Clarks, New Look, Choice, The Cooperative, W H Smith, Adrians, 99p Stores, a bakery, a coffee lounge and others. There is also a swimming pool, a library, an open-air market and a community centre within the vicinity of the town centre.
The town has existed since before 975. There is evidence that the area itself was inhabited in prehistoric probably by a tribe of Britons called Trinobantes, Roman and Saxon times[citation needed]. The name Wickford is of Saxon origin, Wic meaning a village, habitation, castle or dairy farm and Ford being a shallow river crossing.
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Alastair Campbell
Alastair John Campbell (born 25 May 1957) is a British journalist, broadcaster, political aide and author, best known for his work as Director of Communications and Strategy for Prime Minister Tony Blair between 1997 and 2003. Campbell describes himself as a "Communicator, Writer and Strategist" on his website, while others have described him as Labour's "unelected, but ... hardly underscrutinised" spin doctor.
Alastair John Campbell was born on 25 May 1957 in Yorkshire, son of a Scottish veterinary surgeon, Donald Campbell, and his wife Elizabeth. Campbell's parents had moved to Keighley when his father became a partner in a local veterinary practice. Donald was a Gaelic-speaker from the island of Tiree; his wife was from Ayrshire. Campbell has two elder brothers, Donald and Graeme, and a younger sister, Elizabeth. Even though Alastair was born in Yorkshire, he would go over the county border to Lancashire to watch Burnley Football Club with his father, Donald.
He attended Bradford Grammar School for a short period of time, followed by City of Leicester Boys' Grammar School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied modern languages, French and German, for which he received an upper second (2:1). He later claimed he wrote essays based solely on works of literary criticism, often rather than having read the works themselves. He spent a year in the south of France as part of his degree course.
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Andy Burnham
Andrew Murray Burnham (born 7 January 1970) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Leigh since 2001. He served in the Cabinet under Gordon Brown from 2007 to 2010 as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Culture Secretary and Health Secretary. He was a candidate in the 2010 Labour leadership election, coming fourth out of five candidates. Burnham was initially appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Education within Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet, but was moved back to the Shadow Department for Health in a reshuffle.
Burnham was born Old Roan, Aintree, Lancashire (now Merseyside), the son of a telephone engineer father and a receptionist mother, and brought up in Culcheth, near Warrington where his family moved to when his father was promoted to a job in Manchester. He was educated at St. Lewis' Primary School and St Aelred's Roman Catholic High School (now St Aelred's Catholic Technology College) in Newton-le-Willows, Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, before moving on to study English at London Metropolitan University.
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Andy Coulson
Andrew Edward Coulson (born 21 January 1968) is an English journalist and political strategist.
Coulson was the editor of the News of the World from 2003 until his resignation in 2007, following the conviction of one of the newspaper's reporters in relation to illegal phone-hacking.
He subsequently joined David Cameron's personnel as communications director, until announcing his departure on 21 January 2011 because of continued media coverage of the phone-hacking affair. He was replaced on 2 February 2011 by former BBC Global News Controller of English Craig Oliver. Coulson was arrested by the Metropolitan Police Service on 8 July 2011 "in connection with allegations of corruption and phone hacking".
He was detained and charged with perjury by Strathclyde Police on 30 May 2012.
Coulson grew up in Wickford, Essex. He attended Beauchamps High School, a secondary school and sixth form college, from 1979 to 1986. Coulson's parents moved from their Basildon council house to nearby Wickford during his childhood.
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Andy Hayman
Andrew Christopher "Andy" Hayman, CBE, QPM (born 1959) is a retired British police officer and author of The Terrorist Hunters. Hayman held the rank of Chief Constable of Norfolk Constabulary and Assistant Commissioner for Specialist Operations at London's Metropolitan Police, the highest ranking officer responsible for counter-terrorism in the United Kingdom. Hayman was directly responsible for the investigation into the 7 July 2005 London bombings. He has also spoken for the Association of Chief Police Officers, first on drugs policy, and later on counter-terrorism.
Born in Essex in 1959, Hayman is married and has two children. He joined Essex Police from school in 1978, rising to the rank of superintendent in 1995 and subsequently to chief superintendent in 1997. In 1998, Hayman transferred to the Metropolitan Police and gained the rank of commander, taking charge of the force's drugs unit, before moving on to head the Directorate of Professional Standards and to serve as an aide to the deputy commissioner. From 1998 to 2005, Hayman was also the spokesman on drugs for the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO).
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Anne Diamond
Anne Margaret Diamond (born 8 September 1954) is an English radio and television presenter and journalist. She hosted Good Morning Britain for TV-am and the similarly titled Good Morning... with Anne and Nick for BBC1, both with Nick Owen as her co-presenter. Currently Anne presents a phone-in show on BBC Radio Berkshire on weekday mornings from 10am to 1pm and makes regular appearances airing her views as a panelist on The Wright Stuff on Channel 5 and BBC London, and is a regular columnist for the Daily Mail. She is most well known for her successful campaigning for research into cot death following the death of her third son Sebastian. A campaign which she co-founded in 1991 was reported to have cut the incidents of cot death in the UK from 2,000 a year to close on 300.
Diamond's parents were of Irish ancestry, although her father was raised in Scotland. She was born and grew up in Malvern, Worcestershire, and she attended Worcester Grammar School for Girls. She is the cousin of Scots singer-songwriter Jim Diamond.
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Arminka Helic
Arminka Helic is a Special Adviser (SPAD) and Chief of Staff to the British Foreign Secretary William Hague.
The Daily Mail has described her as "Mr Hague's formidable £70,000-a-year special adviser and long-standing chief of staff", and as "Hague's 'blue-eyed Bosnian Muslim émigré'".
Dr Helic is a Bosnian Muslim and foreign policy expert who became a Conservative adviser after fleeing the Yugoslav conflict of the 1990s.
According to a leaked dispatch from Richard LeBaron, Deputy Head of the US Mission in London, she shares Mr Hague's pronounced pro-American views. According to LeBaron she described America as "the essential country."
She is a Bosnian Muslim who fled the genocide of the 1990. It is said that "her influence has not gone unnoticed by the Israelites".
In the aftermath of Israel's 2006 attack on Lebanon, there were rumours that Hague's apparent criticism of Israel - in his remark that "elements of the Israeli response are disproportionate" - reflected the influence of Helic, given his previously staunch support for Israel.
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Arthur Waters
Arthur George Waters (27 February 1888 – 17 November 1953) was a British newspaper editor.
Waters grew up in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, and began his career in journalism with the Barry Dock News. He subsequently became a sub-editor at the Western Mail and the Evening Express in Cardiff, then joined the News of the World in 1914. He gradually rose through the ranks, and was appointed as editor of the paper in 1947, serving until his sudden and unexpected death in 1953. By then, the newspaper was selling more than 8,000,000 copies per issue.
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Barry Askew
Barry Askew (13 December 1936 – 17 April 2012) was a British journalist, editor of the Lancashire Evening Post and briefly of the News of the World.
Askew grew up in Preston, and worked for the Lancashire Evening Post, winning the IPC National Press Awards Campaigning Journalist award in 1972, and soon becoming editor of the paper.
In April 1981, Askew was appointed as editor of the News of the World, partly on the recommendation of Harold Evans, editor of The Times. In early December, he came into conflict with the Queen after claiming that if Princess Diana felt harassed by press photographers she should send a servant out to shop for her. At the end of the month, he left the newspaper, and spent the rest of his career in various short-term provincial posts.
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Bernard Shrimsley
Bernard Shrimsley is a British newspaper editor and writer. He was editor of The Sun (1972–1975) and the News of the World (1975–80). He launched the Mail on Sunday in 1980 and acted as a director of the paper from 1980 to 1982. He was assistant editor (1983–1986), and then associate editor (1986–1996) of the Daily Express.
Shrimsley has written three books: The Candidates, Lion Rampant and, most recently, The Silly Season in 2003.
One of his most famous headlines was "End of the World" after England had been knocked out of the World Cup.[citation needed]
He was also the first member of his family to go into what subsequently became a family profession. His younger brother Anthony was political editor of three national newspapers and editor of Sir James Goldsmith's short-lived news magazine Now! Bernard's daughter, Amanda, worked as a feature writer for the Sun as did Anthony's daughter, Emma. Anthony's son, Robert, was news editor of the Financial Times and is now managing editor of its website, Ft.com
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Brian Leveson
Sir Brian Henry LevesonQC (pronounced /ˈlɛvɨsən/; born 22 June 1949), is an English Judge, a Lord Justice of Appeal for England and Wales and, since 2010, head of the Sentencing Council for England and Wales.
It was announced on 13 July 2011 that Lord Justice Leveson would lead the Leveson Inquiry, a public inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the British press, prompted by the News of the World phone hacking affair.
Born in Liverpool, Leveson was educated at Liverpool College, before going on to Merton College, Oxford.
Leveson was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1970. He initially practised in Liverpool and took silk in 1986. Leveson became a Bencher in 1995, acted as a Recorder between 1988 and 2000, and as a Deputy High Court Judge between 1998 and 2000. In 2000, Leveson was appointed as a Judge of the High Court, Queen's Bench Division, and served as a Presiding Judge of the Northern Circuit between 2002–2005.
While sitting with Lord Justice Mantell in the Court of Appeal in 2002 under the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, he upheld the murder conviction of James Hanratty. He also presided over the trial of ex-US Marine Toby Studebaker for charges relating to child grooming over the internet. He refused to imprison 100-year-old Bernard Heginbotham, who was found guilty of euthanasia on his wife of 67 years, 87-year-old Ida, because she faced spending the remainder of her life in the dementia ward of a nursing home. He also presided over the trial of Michael Barton, who was found guilty in 2005 of murdering Anthony Walker with an axe.
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Charlie Whelan
Charles Alexander James Whelan (born 3 February 1954, north-east Surrey) is former political director of the British trade union Unite. He rose to prominence as spokesman for Labour politician Gordon Brown from 1992 to 1999.
Whelan's father was a Conservative-voting civil servant. Between 1968 and 1974, Whelan went to Ottershaw School, a state boarding school in Ottershaw, Surrey, which had been established in 1948 by Surrey County Council (SCC) as a boarding school for boys of 12 to 18 years of age. It was the first of its kind in the country to be entirely in the hands of a Local Education Authority.
At Ottershaw, he was a "breakfast boy" - he prepared and delivered meals for older boys. He was captain of the football team. He studied Politics at the City of London Polytechnic (which became the London Guildhall University in 1992).
In 1980 Whelan became a foreign exchange dealer. From 1981-92 he was a researcher and assistant to Jimmy Airlie of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union. He was a member of the Communist Party during the 1980s.
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Charlotte Church
Charlotte Maria Church (born Charlotte Maria Reed; 21 February 1986) is a Welshsinger-songwriter, actress and television presenter. She rose to fame in childhood as a classical singer before branching into pop music in 2005. By 2007, she had sold more than 10 million records worldwide including over 5 million in the United States. In 2010 she was reported to be worth as much as £11m (though one 2003 report quoted her worth at £25m). She hosted a Channel 4 chat show titled The Charlotte Church Show. Church released her first album in five years, titled Back To Scratch, on 17 October 2010. She is also mentioned as one of the Bohemians in Ben Elton's musical We Will Rock You.
Charlotte Church was born Charlotte Maria Reed in Llandaff, a district of Cardiff, Wales. She was brought up as a Roman Catholic by her mother, Maria, who was separated from Church's biological father, Stephen Reed. Church was adopted by her mother's second husband, James Church in 1986. Her break came at 11 when she sang Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Pie Jesu" over the telephone on the television show "This Morning" in 1997, followed by her performance on ITV's Big, Big Talent Show in 1997. This led to concerts at Cardiff Arms Park, the Royal Albert Hall and opening for Shirley Bassey in Antwerp. She also received a vocal scholarship to Howell's School Llandaff in Cardiff where she started in 1998 after leaving The Cathedral School, Llandaff. She balanced performing and school with help from tutors for when she was on the road and said in many interviews that she was "just like every other girl her age".
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Cherie Blair
Cherie Blair QC (born 23 September 1954), known professionally as Cherie Booth QC, is a British barrister practising in England and Wales. She is married to the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair; the couple have three sons and one daughter.
Cherie Booth was born on 23 September 1954 at Fairfield Hospital, Bury, Lancashire (now Greater Manchester), England, and brought up in Ferndale Road, Waterloo, north of Liverpool. She was christened Theresa Cara Booth. Her father, British actor Tony Booth, left her mother, actress Gale Howard (née Joyce Smith), when Cherie was eight years old. She and her younger sister, Lyndsey, were then brought up by their mother Gale and their paternal grandmother, Vera Booth, a devout Roman Catholic of Irish descent. The sisters attended Catholic schools in Crosby and Sefton. Cherie Booth attended Seafield Convent Grammar which is now part of Sacred Heart Catholic College, where she achieved 4 Grade A GCE A Level passes. Cherie and Lyndsey have six half sisters, including British journalist Lauren Booth. Cherie Blair is a practising Roman Catholic.
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Chris Bryant
Christopher John Bryant (born 11 January 1962) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rhondda since 2001. Bryant is the former Minister for Europe and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Chris Bryant was born in Cardiff to a Scottish mother and a Welsh computer engineer father. Bryant grew up in Cardiff, Wales (where his father worked for five years) and Cheltenham. He was educated at Cheltenham College, where he was captain of the school swimming team, and Mansfield College, Oxford where he received a BA degree in English in 1983 and later received the MA (Oxon). He then trained to be a priest in the Church of England at Ripon College Cuddesdon in Oxfordshire, where he obtained a further degree in theology. Although initially a member of the Conservative Party, and an elected office-holder in the Oxford University Conservative Association, he joined the Labour Party in 1986 after leaving Oxford. From 1986 he served as a Curate at the Church of All Saints, High Wycombe and from 1989, as a Youth Chaplain in Peterborough, as well as travelling in Latin America.
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Clive Goodman
Clive Goodman (born 17 September 1957, Hammersmith, London) is a former royal editor and reporter for the News of the World. He was arrested in August 2006 and jailed in January 2007 for intercepting mobile phone messages involving members of the Royal Household.
Goodman initially worked as a journalist on Nigel Dempster's gossip column in the Daily Mail, before joining the News of the World as royal editor. He was among the tabloid journalists covering the breakdown of the marriage of the Diana, Princess of Wales to Prince Charles, and then held the News of the World record for number of consecutive front page splashes, with five.
In March 2005 Goodman took over Mark Bolland's "Blackadder" column, that reported details of the lives of notable personalities. It was while writing for this column that two entries raised suspicion with Royal Household staff that Goodman had access to the Royal Family's voicemails.
On 26 January 2007 Goodman was imprisoned for four months, having pleaded guilty to illegally intercepting phone messages from Clarence House; his co-conspirator Glenn Mulcaire was sentenced to six months. Goodman was sacked by the News of the World in January 2007, but within a year he received £240,000 in settlements, from News International. According to News International the payments were made because his dismissal was unfair as they had failed to "follow statutory procedures" in sacking Goodman.
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Colin Myler
Colin Myler (born Liverpool 30 May 1952[citation needed]) is a journalist who has edited British and American newspapers.
Myler grew up in Widnes in Cheshire, in North West England.
Myler was educated at Saint Fisher and More Roman Catholic High School, at the time a secondary modern school, in his home town of Widnes.
Myler started his career working for the Catholic Pictorial news agency in Southport, before joining The Sun and then the Daily Mail. He was appointed news editor of the Sunday People, then moved to Today in 1985, before its launch, again as news editor. He was later appointed as Deputy Editor of the Sunday Mirror.
In 1992, he succeeded his boss Bridget Rowe as editor of the Sunday Mirror. In 1994, he moved to edit the Daily Mirror. He was made Managing Director of both the Daily and Sunday Mirror in 1995, but soon left to run Super League of Europe, the rugby league marketing body. He returned to the Sunday Mirror in 1998, but resigned in 2001 after Judge David Poole ruled that an article he had published regarding accusations of assault against Leeds United F.C. footballers Lee Bowyer and Jonathan Woodgate risked prejudicing their trial.
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Cyril Lear
Cyril Lear (9 September 1911–11 March 1987) was a British newspaper editor.
Lear grew up in Plymouth, where he attended the Hoe Grammar School. He went into journalism and worked at the Western Morning News from 1928, moving to the Torquay Times in 1932, the Daily Mail in 1934 and the Daily Telegraph in 1938.
During World War II, he served as a rifleman with the Queen's Westminsters, before obtaining a commission as a major in the Royal Berkshire Regiment. After the war, he was employed by the News of the World, rising to become Features Editor, Assistant Editor and then Deputy Editor. He finally served as Editor of the newspaper from 1970 and Editorial Manager from 1973.
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Damian McBride
Damian McBride (born 1974) is a former civil servant and former special advisor to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. McBride began his civil service career at HM Customs and Excise. He worked with Customs and Excise and rose to prominence as Head of Communications at the UK Treasury until 2008.
On 11 April 2009 he resigned his position after it emerged on a political blog that he and another prominent Labour Party supporter, blogger Derek Draper, had exchanged emails discussing the possibility of disseminating rumours McBride had fabricated about the private lives of some Conservative Party politicians. The emails from McBride had been sent from his No. 10 Downing Street e-mail account.
Born in 1974 and raised in North London to Irish parents, McBride was educated at Finchley Catholic High School, and attended Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he read History, and wrote a final-year dissertation in praise of inciting violence and rumour-mongering in politics entitled Far More Important Than Politics? Public Policy and the Impact of Urban Riots, 1964-8. The thesis was supervised by Tony Badger, who later commented "We disagreed over the value of the riots – I thought they were counter-productive – but he was very focused, and it was an excellent thesis" and tried to persuade McBride to do a PhD.
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Dan Corry
Dan Corry was the head of the Number 10 Policy Unit for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. He was employed as a special adviser.
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David Cameron
David William Donald Cameron (pronunciation: /ˈkæmərən/; born 9 October 1966) is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and Leader of the Conservative Party. He represents Witney as its Member of Parliament (MP).
Cameron studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Oxford, gaining a first class honours degree. He then joined the Conservative Research Department and became Special Adviser to Norman Lamont, and then to Michael Howard. He was Director of Corporate Affairs at Carlton Communications for seven years.
He was defeated in his first candidacy for Parliament at Stafford in 1997, but was elected in 2001 as the Member of Parliament for the Oxfordshire constituency of Witney. He was promoted to the Opposition front bench two years later, and rose rapidly to become head of policy co-ordination during the 2005 general election campaign. With a public image of a youthful, moderate candidate who would appeal to young voters, he won the Conservative leadership election in 2005.
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David Miliband
David Wright Miliband (born 15 July 1965) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Shields since 2001, and was the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2007 to 2010. He is the elder son of the late Marxist theorist Ralph Miliband. He and his brother, current Labour Leader Ed Miliband, were the first siblings to sit in the Cabinet simultaneously since Edward, Lord Stanley, and Oliver Stanley in 1938.
Born in London, Miliband studied at Oxford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he started his career at the Institute for Public Policy Research. At 29, Miliband became Tony Blair's Head of Policy whilst the Labour Party was in opposition and was a major contributor to Labour's manifesto for the 1997 general election which brought the party to power. Blair made him head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit from 1997 to 2001, following which Miliband was elected to parliament for the North East England seat of South Shields.
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David Percy Davies
David Percy Davies (25 October 1891–15 October 1946) was a British newspaper editor.
Davies studied at Llandovery College, and joined the Welch Regiment in 1910. He also entered journalism, working at the South Wales Daily Post, then later moved to George Newnes in London. During World War I, he served as a major with the XI Corps Cyclist Battalion. In 1919, he returned to the UK as a sub-editor at the News of the World. In 1933, he was promoted to become Deputy Editor, and he was appointed as a Director of the newspaper in 1935, then finally as Editor in 1941, serving until his death in 1946. He also served as High Sheriff of Glamorgan, in 1943/44.
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Derek Jameson
Derek Jameson (born 29 November 1929, London) is a retired British tabloid journalist and broadcaster.
As a child, Jameson was evacuated from London in WW2. His career began in Fleet Street, as a messenger boy, before becoming managing editor of the Daily Mirror newspaper and editor of the Daily Express, Daily Star and News of the World.
He joined BBC Radio 2 in late 1985, sitting in for Jimmy Young, before taking over the breakfast show from Ken Bruce in March 1986, presenting it until December 1991. He then hosted the Monday to Thursday late-night show, along with his wife Ellen, until March 1997.
In 1988 he began presenting the BBC1 television show People. He was replaced in the second series by Chris Serle, Lucy Pilkington, Jenni Barnett and Frank Bruno.
Now retired from broadcasting, Jameson wrote a weekly column in the Brighton Argus until October 2000, and is an after-dinner speaker.
Jameson's cockney accent and abrasive persona caused Private Eye to refer to him as Sid Yobbo. In 1980 Jameson brought an action against the BBC over a sketch in the Radio 4 programme Week Ending which described him as an "East End boy made bad": Jameson lost the action when it came to court in 1984. The jury found the broadcast defamatory, but also fair comment and Jameson had to pay costs. After it was said on Radio 4 that Jameson was "so ignorant he thought erudite was a type of glue", he sued.
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Dick Dinsdale
Richard Lewis Dinsdale (23 June 1907 – 2 December 1995), known as Dick Dinsdale, was a British newspaper editor.
Dinsdale grew up in Kingston-upon-Hull, and attended Hull Technical College, before joining the Hull Daily Mail as a reporter, in 1926. He then moved into sub-editing, working at the Newcastle Evening World, Manchester Evening News, Daily Express, Evening News and the Daily Mirror, then for the War Service during World War II. He returned to the Mirror after the war, rising to become Deputy Editor in 1955. In 1961, he was moved to the Daily Herald, serving as its final Deputy Editor, and as the first Deputy Editor of The Sun. In 1965, he was promoted to become Editor of the newspaper, remaining in post until 1969. He then served as Chairman of West of England Newspapers, retiring in 1972.
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Dominic Mohan
Dominic Mohan (born 26 May 1969, Bristol, England) is an English journalist and newspaper editor.
He was the Editor of The Sun newspaper in London. He joined The Sun in 1996 working on the "Bizarre" Column. Mohan was appointed deputy editor of The Sun in 2007 by Rebekah Brooks and was named as her replacement in 2009 following Brooks' promotion to chief executive of News International..
Mohan conceived the idea of re-recording Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in 2004, for which he received the Hugh Cudlipp Award at the British Press Awards in 2005. He was instrumental in the Live 8 concert which followed. He was also a Virgin Radio DJ, winning a Sony Gold Award in 2003 for "The Who Special".[citation needed]
Although born in Bristol, his family moved to Cambridgeshire when he was 10 years old. He attended the Cromwell Community College (in Chatteris) and the Neale Wade Community College before graduating from Southampton University in English. While studying for his degree he wrote for and then edited The Wessex News (now Wessex Scene), the Southampton University student newspaper.
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Ed Balls
Edward Michael Balls, (born 25 February 1967) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Morley and Outwood since 2010, and is the current Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. From 2005 to 2010, he was the MP for Normanton and he served in the Cabinet from 2007 to 2010.
Balls is married to current Shadow Home Secretary and fellow Labour MP Yvette Cooper. In 2008 they were the first married couple to serve together in a British Cabinet.
Balls' father is the zoologist Michael Balls, criticised for campaigning against the grammar school system in Norfolk, then sending his son to fee-paying schools. Balls was born in Norwich and educated at Bawburgh Primary School in Norwich, Crossdale Drive Primary School in Nottinghamshire, and then the private all-boys Nottingham High School, where he played the violin. He went on to attend Keble College, Oxford, where he gained a First in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (graduating ahead of David Cameron), and later Harvard, where he was a Kennedy Scholar specialising in Economics.
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Ed Miliband
Edward Samuel Miliband (born 24 December 1969) is a British Labour Party politician, currently the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the South Yorkshire constituency of Doncaster North since 2005 and served in the Cabinet from 2007 to 2010 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown. He and his brother, David Miliband, were the first siblings to sit in the Cabinet simultaneously since Edward, Lord Stanley, and Oliver Stanley in 1938.
Born in London, Miliband graduated from Corpus Christi College, Oxford and the London School of Economics, becoming first a television journalist and then a Labour Party researcher, before rising to become one of Chancellor Gordon Brown's confidants and Chairman of HM Treasury's Council of Economic Advisers.
As Prime Minister, Gordon Brown appointed Miliband as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster on 28 June 2007. He was subsequently promoted to the new post of Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, a position he held from 3 October 2008 to 11 May 2010. On 25 September 2010, he was elected Leader of the Labour Party.
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Elle Macpherson
Elle Macpherson (born 29 March 1964) is an Australian model, actress, and businesswoman. She is well-known for her record five cover appearances for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue beginning in the 1980s, leading to her nickname "The Body". She is also known as the founder primary model and Creative Director for a series of business ventures, including Elle Macpherson Intimates, a lingerie line, and "The Body," a line of skin care products.
In 2010, she became the host and executive producer of Britain and Ireland's Next Top Model, and she is currently the host and an executive producer NBC's Fashion Star.
Macpherson was born Eleanor Nancy Gow, in the Killara neighbourhood of Sydney, Australia, the daughter of entrepreneur and sound engineer Peter Gow, a former president of a Sydney rugby league team, the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks. Her mother Frances worked as a nurse before she married. Macpherson grew up in Killara, a North Shore suburb of Sydney, and she attended Killara High School. Macpherson is the eldest of four children including the businesswoman and environmentalist Mimi Macpherson. Macpherson’s parents divorced when she was 10 years old, and she moved with her mother and two siblings. Her mother later remarried, and a clerical mistake in registering at her new school meant that her name was changed from her father's, Gow, to her stepfather's, Macpherson.
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Emsley Carr
Sir William Emsley Carr (1 May 1867–5 August 1941) was a British newspaper editor, who edited the News of the World for more than fifty years.
Carr was born and raised in the Hunslet district of Leeds. His uncle, Lascelles Carr, was a founder and editor of the Western Mail, based in Cardiff, and he saw promise in Emsley, and summoned him to work as a journalist on the newspaper. In 1891, Lascelles was part of a syndicate which purchased the News of the World, a London-based Sunday newspaper with a small circulation, and he decided to appoint his nephew as its new editor.
Emsley married Lascelles' daughter, Jenny Lascelles Carr, in 1895, and worked closely with George Riddell to build up sales of the News of the World. This was highly successful; by 1900, the paper was selling more than one million copies of each issue. Carr also continued to write for the Western Mail, acting as its chief political correspondent until the 1930s, using his membership of the Parliamentary lobby to obtain stories.
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Garry Flitcroft
Garry William Flitcroft (born 6 November 1972) is an English former professional footballer and football manager of Northern Premier League side Chorley.
As a player he was a midfielder from 1991 to 2006, and played in the Premier League for Manchester City, Blackburn Rovers and Sheffield United, as well as playing in the Football League for Bury. He was capped 10 times by England U21, scoring three goals. In 2009 he became manager of Leigh Genesis and the following year took over as manager of Chorley.
At the age of 12 Flitcroft rejected Manchester United’s overtures in favour of a move to Manchester City. Garry then spent two years honing his skills at Lilleshall as a teenager before making his name as a professional. Following a brief spell on loan at Bury in 1992, where he made twelve appearances, he then broke into the City first team and went on to play 142 times, scoring 15 goals. After five years at with City, having played 142 games, some as captain, he joined Blackburn in March 1996 for £3.5m after City were going through financial difficulties and their then chairman Francis Lee told the then manager Alan Ball to sell their most profitable player, which turned out to be Flitcroft.
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Gavin Kelly
Gavin Kelly (born 29 September 1968) is an English former footballer, born in Beverley, who played as a goalkeeper in the Football League for Hull City, Bristol Rovers and Scarborough, and in the Hong Kong First Division League for Golden. He also played non-League football for clubs including North Ferriby United, Harrogate Town, Whitby Town, Bradford Park Avenue, and Bridlington Town.
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Geoff Mulgan
Geoff Mulgan (born 1961) is Chief Executive of the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA) and Visiting Professor at University College, London, the London School of Economics and the University of Melbourne. Previously he was:
Mulgan obtained a First Class degree from Balliol College, Oxford and a Ph.D. in telecommunications from the University of Westminster. He was also a Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, trained as a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka and worked for a spell during the 1980s as a van driver for the "Labour-supporting collective of musicians and comedians known as Red Wedge", opting ultimately for a career in local government and academia in the UK and going on to become an influential writer on social and political issues in various newspapers and magazines in the 1990s including the Independent, Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman and Marxism Today. He worked as a reporter for BBC television and radio and was made a CBE in 2005.
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George Lansbury
George Lansbury (21 February 1859 – 7 May 1940) was a British politician, socialist, Christian pacifist and newspaper editor. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1910 to 1912 and from 1922 to 1940, and leader of the Labour Party from 1932 to 1935.
He was a campaigner for social justice and improved living and employment conditions for the working class, especially in London's East End.
His earliest political involvement was with the Liberal Party, which he joined in 1886. He acted as electoral agent for Samuel Montagu in Whitechapel at the General Election of 1886, and for Jane Cobden, who stood for election to the London County Council as a Liberal candidate in 1889. That year Lansbury took up the issue of pressing for a legal eight-hour day, but after failing to secure the support of the National Liberal Federation at their 1889 conference he became increasingly disillusioned by the Liberals. He came into contact with the Social Democratic Federation and, in support of the famous 1889 Dock Strike, joined the recently formed Gas Workers' and General Labourers' Union.
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Glenn Mulcaire
Glenn Michael Mulcaire, born September 8, 1970, is a former professional footballer,[dubious – discuss] latterly a private investigator. He has been closely associated with the News International phone hacking scandal. In January 2007 he was found guilty of illegally intercepting phone messages from Clarence House and imprisoned for six months after having pleaded guilty; his co-conspirator News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman was sentenced to four months. Renewed controversy over the phone hacking scandal led to the closure of the News of the World in July 2011. He has publicly apologised to those affected by his activities.
Mulcaire is a former footballer who played in the lower tiers of the English football league system, most notably for the then newly formed AFC Wimbledon, when he was also known as Trigger. He previously played for Fulham youth team, Dorking, Egham Town and Harrow Borough.
Playing for AFC Wimbledon against Bromley in July 2002 he became the first man to score a goal for AFC Wimbledon". As Will Buckley reported at the time, "AFC Wimbledon - a mere seven promotions away from the Premiership and Trigger less than a decade away from becoming a household name." Sports journalist Nick Harris also reported that the club's fans will always associate Mulcaire with this goal above his work as a private investigator
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Gordon Brown
James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 until 2010. He previously served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour Government from 1997 to 2007, becoming the longest-serving holder of that office in modern history. Brown has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1983, for Dunfermline East until 2005, and currently for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.
Brown became Prime Minister on 27 June 2007, after the resignation of Tony Blair and three days after becoming Leader of the governing Labour Party. His tenure ended on 11 May 2010, when he resigned as Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party. Brown was one of only three people to serve in the Cabinet continuously from Labour's victory in 1997 until its defeat in 2010, the others being Jack Straw and Alistair Darling.
Brown has a PhD in history from the University of Edinburgh and spent his early career working as a lecturer at a further education college and a television journalist. He has been a Member of Parliament since 1983; first for Dunfermline East and since 2005 for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath. As Prime Minister, he also held the offices of First Lord of the Treasury and the Minister for the Civil Service.
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Greg Miskiw
Greg Miskiw (born 1949 or 1950) is a former news editor of the defunct British tabloid newspaper the News of the World.
During the 1980s Miskiw worked as a reporter for tabloid papers published by the Mirror Group. He was arrested by the Polish authorities for visa irregularities in 1981 whilst working for the Sunday Mirror. He later moved to work for the Daily Mirror.
By 2001 Miskiw was working for the News of the World as assistant editor on the news desk. There he helped to co-ordinate the work of Mazher Mahmood (also known as the fake sheikh), particularly Mahmood's taping of frank unguarded comments by Sophie, Countess of Wessex about various political figures and members of the Royal Family. He became assistant editor (news and investigations) in 2001. In April 2002 News of the World's crime editor Peter Rose resigned following the collapse of a proposed interview with a witness to the death of Damilola Taylor. In 2003 an employment tribunal ruled in favour of Rose's case for constructive dismissal. The tribunal chairman was particularly critical of Greg Miskiw, who failed to inform the reporters that the funding which would have enabled the interview to occur was not in place until all of the parties were ready to begin. The chairman said the Miskiw's manner was "cavalier and irresponsible" adding that Miskiw's actions "could no doubt affect the reputation of the applicant". Later that year Miskiw moved to Manchester to oversee News of the World's north of England office.
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Guto Harri
Guto Harri (born 8 July 1966) is Director of Communications at News International. A former BBC Chief Political Correspondent, in May 2008 he was appointed as Communications Director for the Mayor of London Boris Johnson's administration at London City Hall. He quit Johnson's team when he was re-elected mayor in May 2012 and was confirmed in his role at newspaper publisher News International shortly afterwards. His first name is Welsh, and is pronounced [ˈɡɪtɔ].
Guto Harri was born in Cardiff as Guto Pritchard-Jones, the son of writer/physician Harri Pritchard-Jones (born 1933), and his wife Lenna (née Harries). Guto has a younger sister, Mia.
A native Welsh speaker, he studied at the Tonyrefail and Bryntaf schools before attending Ysgol Gyfun Llanhari and Queen's College, Oxford, where he studied PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics). He then undertook a postgraduate course in Broadcast Journalism at the Centre for Journalism Studies, Cardiff.
Harri started his broadcasting career in Welsh-language radio before moving into national radio and television, working on the S4C news programme Newyddion and on a number of historical documentaries for S4C, as well as presenting BBC Wales' main election programme.[citation needed]
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Hamilton Fyfe
Henry Hamilton Fyfe (29 September 1869 – 15 June 1951) was a British journalist and writer who served as editor of both the Daily Mirror and the Daily Herald.
Born in London, Fyfe was the son of James Hamilton Fyfe, a barrister and journalist, and his wife Mary. He was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh; he joined the staff of The Times at the age of seventeen, where he worked as a reporter and reviewer before becoming secretary to the editor, George Earle Buckle. In 1902, he was named editor of the Morning Advertiser, the trade publication of the Licensed Victuallers' Association. Though his efforts to improve the paper soon ran afoul of the paper's owners, they did draw the attention of the press baron Alfred Harmsworth, who offered Fyfe the opportunity to spearhead the transformation of the struggling Daily Mirror the following year. Fyfe accepted Harmsworth's offer, and turned the paper from a struggling publication catering to women readers into an enormously popular newspaper through the use of photojournalism.
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Hugh Grant
Hugh John Mungo Grant (born 9 September 1960) is an English actor and film producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and an Honorary César. His films have earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide. Grant achieved international stardom after appearing in Richard Curtis's sleeper hit Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). He used this breakthrough role as a frequent cinematic persona during the 1990s to deliver comic performances in mainstream films like Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) and Notting Hill (1999). By the turn of the 21st century, he had established himself as a leading man skilled with a satirical comic talent. Since the 2000s, Grant has expanded his oeuvre with critically acclaimed turns as a cad in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), About A Boy (2002), Love Actually (2003), and American Dreamz (2006).
Within the film industry, Grant is cited as an anti-film star who approaches his roles like a character actor, with the ability to make acting look effortless. Hallmarks of his comic skills include a nonchalant touch of irony/sarcasm and studied physical mannerisms as well as his precisely-timed dialogue delivery and facial expressions. The entertainment media's coverage of Grant's life off the big screen has often overshadowed his work as a thespian. He has been vocal about his disrespect for the profession of acting, and in his disdain towards the culture of celebrity and hostility towards the media. In a career spanning 30 years, Grant has repeatedly claimed that acting is not a true calling but just a job he fell into.
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Ian Edmondson
Ian Edmondson is a British tabloid journalist. He was the news editor at the News of the World. Edmondson was arrested by the Metropolitan police in April 2011 as part of Operation Weeting.
Edmondson worked for News of the World twice. Before landing his first position at News of the World Edmondson worked as a freelance reporter. He was initially hired by News of the World as a general news reporter. He went on to spent 18 months as the paper's crime correspondent before moving to rival tabloid The People in 2000 as assistant news editor. He progressed through deputy news editor and news editor and was promoted to assistant editor (news) in 2003. Edmondson was hired to the News of the World editorial team by Neil Wallis, who was Andy Coulson's deputy editor in November 2004. Coulson promoted Edmondson to assistant editor of the news department in October 2005.
He was allegedly one of Coulson's inner circle of executives when Coulson was editor of the paper, according to a former reporter from the News of the World.
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James Desborough
James Desborough (b. 1 September 1972) started work at the regional newspaper the Barking & Dagenham Post as a news reporter in 1994. The newspaper’s other famous past reporters include Phil Hall, who later became the editor of The News of The World.
In 1995 Desborough moved to Channel One TV – the Daily Mail parent group Associated Newspaper’s ill-fated effort into local television. The station was a cable only news and entertainment channel. Its senior executives included Nick Pollard, who later went on to head up Sky News, ITN news editor Peter Wallace and New York Daily News editor Martin Dunn. After starting on the Newsdesk he was promoted to entertainment reporter and later Showbiz Editor.
Desborough worked for the channel’s daily entertainment show The Biz, presented by Julia Caesar. During his time there he produced special programmes and feature length interviews on Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Full Monty and Bon Jovi.
Desborough produced and presented specials on the film industry. The channel's other well known reporters included Thomas Moore and Paul Brennan, who both now work at Sky News, TV host Ruth England and BBC Sports host Chris Hollins.
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James Murdoch
James Rupert Jacob Murdoch (born 13 December 1972) is the younger son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the deputy chief operating officer of News Corporation. He is the former chairman and chief executive of News Corp., Europe and Asia, overseeing assets such as News International (British newspapers), SKY Italia (satellite television in Italy), Sky Deutschland, and STAR TV (satellite television in Asia).
He sits on the News Corporation board of directors and is a member of the office of the chairman. He formerly held a non-executive chair at British Sky Broadcasting, in which News Corporation has a controlling minority stake.
He was formerly an executive vice president of News Corporation, the controlling shareholder of BSkyB, and served on the boards of directors of News Datacom and of News Corporation.
Murdoch is a British citizen by birth and a naturalised U.S. citizen. He lost Australian citizenship when his father became a U.S. citizen, but he is eligible to reclaim Australian citizenship.
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James Purnell
James Mark Dakin Purnell (born 2 March 1970) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stalybridge and Hyde from 2001 to 2010. He is currently the Chair of Trustees of the Institute for Public Policy Research and a Senior Advisor in the Public Sector practice of the Boston Consulting Group. He has previously served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport; he resigned from the Government on 4 June 2009, criticising the leadership of Gordon Brown.
Born in the City of London, he received most of his education in France before returning to study for his A Levels at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford and then taking a first in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford.
As a student he worked in the summer holidays as a researcher to Tony Blair from 1989 to 1992. After graduating he worked as a research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research before moving to the BBC to become Head of Corporate Planning. In 1997 Purnell returned to work as a special adviser at Number 10 until 2001. He also served as a board member of the Young Vic theatre.
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James Weatherup
James Weatherup is an English newspaper journalist, news reporter and newspaper editor.
After starting out in regional newspapers, he joined the News of the World, serving in two stints over 25 years for nine editors. In his first stint he rose to Chief reporter. During this time he co-wrote the best selling book Inside 25 Cromwell Street about the serial killers Fred and Rosemary West.
He then left for the Sunday People in 1999 where he was promoted to deputy news editor and then news editor a year later by editor Neil Wallis. He was then head hunted by the Sunday Mirror where he joined as executive writer, splitting his time on the news desk and on the road for big assignments under the editorship of Tina Weaver. In 2004 News of the World editor Andy Coulson persuaded him to return and run the paper's news desk. Two years later he returned to a senior reporting role, replaced by Ian Edmondson, but retained his title as assistant news editor. In September 2010, Weatherup broke the front page story about former world champion boxer Ricky Hatton snorting lines of cocaine.
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Jay Rockefeller
John Davison "Jay" Rockefeller IV (born June 18, 1937) is the senior United States Senator from West Virginia. He was first elected to the Senate in 1984, while in office as Governor of West Virginia, a position he held from 1977 to 1985. Rockefeller moved to Emmons, West Virginia to serve as a VISTA worker in 1964, and was first elected to public office in the state, as a member of the House of Delegates, in 1966. Rockefeller was later elected Secretary of State in 1968 and was president of West Virginia Wesleyan College from 1973 to 1976.
As a great-grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, he is the only currently-serving politician of the prominent six-generation Rockefeller family and the only Democrat in what has been a traditionally Republican dynasty.
John Davison Rockefeller IV was born at New York Hospital in New York City to John D. Rockefeller III and Blanchette Ferry Hooker just 26 days after the death of his great-grandfather John D. Rockefeller. Jay Rockefeller graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1955 and from Harvard College in 1961 with an A.B. in Far Eastern Languages and History, after having spent three years studying Japanese at the International Christian University in Tokyo.
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Jo Moore
Jo Moore (born 1963) served as a British special adviser and press officer ('spin doctor'). She was embroiled in scandal while working as advisor to Stephen Byers, the Transport, Local Government and Regions Secretary.
Moore began working as a press officer for local authorities in London but moved to work for the Labour Party in the early 1980s. She was also active in local politics in Haringey. By the early 1990s she was the Labour Party's chief press officer. She served as Chief Press and Broadcasting Officer during the Labour Party's 1997 general election campaign. In 1998 she left her job to work part-time as an Account Director at a leading lobbying company. However Stephen Byers appointed her (initially part-time) as his Special Adviser from 17 February 1999.
At 2:55pm BST (9:55am EDT) on 11 September 2001, after both World Trade Center towers had been hit in the attacks, but before either tower had collapsed, Moore sent an email to the press office of her department which read:
The Department did indeed announce on the following day two minor changes to the system of Councillors Allowances. Nearly a month later, Moore's email was leaked to the press where it provoked opprobrium around the cynical nature of spin. Moore ultimately made a personal appearance before the cameras to apologise for what she had written.
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Joe Irvin
Joe Irvin is currently the Chief Executive of the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action . who succeeded Kevin Curley
He was a British Labour Party politician who was a political advisor to Gordon Brown. He used to work for the Transport and General Workers' Union and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds RSPB
He has in the past worked for John Prescott and as director of public affairs for BAA.
He is married to Diana Holland, Assistant General Secretary of Unite trade union and Treasurer of the Labour Party.
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Joel Klein
Joel Irwin Klein (born October 25, 1946) was Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, the largest public school system in the United States, serving more than 1.1 million students in more than 1,600 schools. He was succeeded by Cathie Black in January 2011.
Klein grew up in New York City and attended public schools, graduating from William Cullen Bryant High School in Queens in 1963. He attended Columbia University, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School, again graduating magna cum laude, in 1971. He then clerked for Chief Judge David Bazelon on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1973 until 1974, before then clerking for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell.[citation needed]
In 1975, Klein joined the legal team of the Washington, D.C. non-profit Mental Health Law Project. The MHLP was an independent non-profit organization that brought class-action suits to establish rights for mentally and developmentally disabled clients. In that capacity, Klein developed a specialty in health care and constitutional matters. After working there for a year, he went into private practice, working for five years before founding his own law firm with several partners. In the 1990s Klein served in the White House Counsel's office under President Bill Clinton before being appointed to the United States Department of Justice. There he served as United States Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division. In this capacity, he was the lead prosecutor in the antitrust case United States v. Microsoft. Prior to his appointment to Chancellor in 2002 by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Klein was Counsel to Bertelsmann, an international media group.
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John Prescott
John Leslie Prescott, Baron Prescott (born 31 May 1938) is a British politician who was the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. Born in Prestatyn, Wales, he represented Hull East as the Labour Member of Parliament from 1970 to 2010. In the 1994 leadership election, he stood for both Leader and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, winning election to the latter office. He was appointed Deputy Prime Minister after Labour's victory in the 1997 election, with an expanded brief as Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions.
A former ship's steward and trade union activist, by the 1980s he was presented as the political link to the working class in a Labour Party increasingly led by modernising, middle-class professionals. In his youth, Prescott managed to overcome the handicap of failing his 11-plus entrance examination for grammar school, going on to graduate from Ruskin College in Oxford. Prescott also developed a reputation as a key conciliator in the often tense relationship between Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown.
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John Whittingdale
John Flasby Lawrance Whittingdale OBE, (born (1959-10-16)October 16, 1959), is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1992.
Whittingdale was educated at two independent schools: at Sandroyd School from 1968–1973, in Rushmore Park at the heart of Cranborne Chase near Tollard Royal in Wiltshire and at Winchester College in the county town of Winchester in Hampshire, followed by University College London (UCL) where he was Chairman of the UCL Conservative Society, and earned his BSc in Economics in 1982 (grade 2ii).[citation needed]
From 1982-4, Whittingdale was Head of the political section of the Conservative Research Department. He then served as Special Adviser to three successive Secretaries of State for Trade and Industry, Norman Tebbit, 1984-5; Leon Brittan, 1985-6, and Paul Channon, 1986-7. He worked on international privatisation at NM Rothschild in 1987 and in January 1988, became Political Secretary to the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. Upon her resignation, Whittingdale received the OBE and he continued as her Political Secretary until his election to Parliament in 1992.[citation needed]
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Jon Ashworth
Jonathan Michael Graham Ashworth (born 14 October 1978) is a British Labour politician and the Member of Parliament for Leicester South. He was elected to the seat in a by-election on 5 May 2011 following the resignation of his predecessor Peter Soulsby who stepped down in order to run for office as Mayor of Leicester. He is a former adviser to Gordon Brown and head of party relations for Ed Miliband.
Ashworth was born in Salford, raised in north Manchester and educated at Philips High School in Bury and Bury College before studying at the University of Durham. In 2000 he served as National Secretary of Labour Students, attracting the nickname "Johnny Sparkle" as he was clearly a rising star.
Ashworth began working for the Labour Party as a Political Research Officer in 2001, and was the Economics and Welfare Policy Officer from 2002 to 2004. In 2003 he was seconded to Scottish Labour Party to work on the Scottish Parliament election campaign where he worked closely with Chancellor Gordon Brown.
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Jonathan Rees
Jonathon Rees was a private investigator, and former partner of Daniel Morgan
In 1984, with partner Daniel Morgan, he set up a detective agency, Southern Investigations, in Thornton Heath, Surrey.
In April 1987, Rees was arrested on suspicion of the murder of Daniel Morgan but was released without charge.
Between Morgan's death in 1987 and 2008, five police inquiries were conducted. There were allegations of police corruption, drug trafficking and robbery.
After an inquiry by Hampshire police in 1988, Jonathan Rees and another man were charged with murder, but the case did not reach trial when charges were dropped because of a lack of evidence. and the Hampshire inquiry's 1989 report to the Police Complaints Authority found "no evidence whatsoever of police involvement in the murder".
In 1998, Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Roy Clark conducted a third, secret, inquiry into the murder during which Southern Investigations’ office was bugged. In December 2000, Jonathan Rees was found guilty of conspiring to plant cocaine on an innocent woman in order to discredit her in a child custody battle and sentenced to seven years imprisonment for attempting to pervert the course of justice.
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Jonny Oates
Jonathan "Jonny" Oates is Chief of Staff to Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nick Clegg. He was previous the Director of Policy and Communications at the Liberal Democrats.
Oates began his career as an account manager at political and media relations firm Westminster Strategy. In 1994, he stood as a Liberal Democrat councillor for Grove ward in the Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames. During his time as a councillor, he served as Deputy Leader, helped create of a structure for giving power to local residents and gained national exposure for proposing a conference motion on council control over the National Health Service. Oates remained in local and national politics, serving as an election agent for Edward Davey, a winning candidate at the 1997 General Election.
In 1999, Oates took a position at the Westminster Foundation for Democracy where he was assigned to a role as a political and media adviser to the Inkatha Freedom Party in the South African Parliament, advising Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Reverend Musa Zondi.
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Kelvin MacKenzie
Kelvin Calder MacKenzie (born 22 October 1946, South London) is an English media executive and former newspaper editor. He is best known for being editor of The Sun newspaper between 1981 and 1994, an era in which the paper was established as Britain's best selling newspaper.
MacKenzie was educated at Alleyn's School. His parents were Ian and Mary Mackenzie, both journalists working for The South London Observer. When the South London Press took over their paper, Mary became Press Chief for the Tory leader of the Greater London Council, Sir Horace Cutler. Kelvin's father died in April 2004 at the age of 84. Kelvin MacKenzie left school with one O-level, in English literature. He joined the South East London Mercury at 17, and worked on local and then national newspapers, such as the Daily Express for the next ten years.
MacKenzie stated that he discovered early on in his career that he had little writing ability and that his talents lay in making up headlines and laying out pages. By 1978, at the age of 32, he was Managing Editor of the New York Post, two years after it was purchased by Rupert Murdoch, who already owned The Sun. Murdoch appointed him Sun editor in 1981 and is said to have described MacKenzie as his all-time "favourite editor".
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Kenneth Donlan
Kenneth Donlan (1927 or 1928 – 23 May 1994) was a British newspaper editor.
Donlan worked for the Daily Mail for 25 years at their offices in London and Manchester. In 1971 he moved to rival tabloid The Sun where he became news editor. He was briefly editor of the News of the World from 1980 to 1981 before returning to The Sun as managing editor. In 1989 he became the first national newspaper ombudsman in the United Kingdom. Donlan died at the age of 66 in Chislehurst.
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Lawrence Jacobs
Lawrence "Lon" A. Jacobs (born May 4, 1955) is the former Chief Legal Officer, Senior Executive Vice President and Group General Counsel of News Corporation.
Jacobs grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
He graduated from Temple University summa cum laude in 1978 and Brooklyn Law School cum laude in 1981.
Jacobs has been a member of the Bar of the State of New York since 1982.
Jacobs joined News Corp. in 1996 as deputy to Arthur Siskind, whose position he took over in 2004 when Siskind stepped down and announced his retirement.
Jacobs played a key role in the acquisitions of MySpace and Dow Jones during his tenure as General Counsel.
His salary in 2007 was $4.1 million.
On June 8, 2011, Jacobs announced that he would be stepping down from his position as General Counsel at News Corp. in order to "pursue new opportunities."
Jacobs' resignation came when he approached the company Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey to inform him that News Corp. was in breach of his contract; chairman & CEO Rupert Murdoch was using former New York City Schools Chancellor, and newly appointed News Corp. executive, Joel Klein, who joined the company in November 2010, for legal counsel instead of himself. He was released from his multimillion-dollar contract with News Corp. with four years remaining on it.
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Lee Chapman
Lee Chapman (born Lincoln, 5 December 1959) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker from 1978 until 1996, in which he scored almost 200 first-team goals.
He is best known for spells with Stoke City, Leeds United, Sheffield Wednesday, Nottingham Forest and West Ham United. He also played for Plymouth Argyle, Arsenal, Sunderland, Portsmouth, Southend United, Ipswich Town and Swansea City. As well as this he played in both France and Norway for Chamois Niortais and Strømsgodset IF, and was capped by both the England U21 and England B teams.
Chapman began his career at Stoke City, but made his league debut whilst on loan at Plymouth Argyle. On his return to Stoke, Chapman quickly became a first team regular, scoring made 34 goals in 99 appearances between 1979 and 1982.
His goal scoring abilities brought him to the attention of Division One clubs, and in August 1982 Chapman moved to Arsenal for £500,000. However, the move was not a success - he made only 23 appearances for the club between 1982 and 1984, and scored a meagre 4 goals. Chapman moved on to Sunderland for the 1983-84 season, but again failed to establish himself in the team, scoring just 3 goals in 15 appearances.
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Les Hinton
Leslie Frank "Les" Hinton (born 19 February, 1944) is a British-American journalist and businessman. Hinton, born in the UK, became a United States citizen in 1986. He was appointed CEO of Dow Jones & Company in December 2007, after its acquisition by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Hinton resigned that position on July 15, 2011, as a result of the unfolding journalistic ethics scandal at a News Corporation subsidiary, News International. A Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee accused Hinton in May 2012 of misleading it during its enquiries into the phone hacking scandal and Hinton of being 'complicit in the cover-up' at News International.'
Except for a few years with United Press International in London, at the time of his July 2011 resignation Hinton had worked for Rupert Murdoch for more than fifty years as a journalist and executive in Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. In 1976, he moved from London to New York as a foreign correspondent for the group's newspapers in Britain and Australia. After several executive positions, he was appointed President of Murdoch Magazines in 1990, two years later becoming President and Chief Executive Officer of News America Publishing, responsible for the company's US publishing operations. In 1993, he was appointed Chairman and CEO of Fox Television Stations, returning to London in 1995 as Executive Chairman of News Corp subsidiary News International Limited, Britain's largest national newspaper publisher.
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Leslie Ash
Leslie Ash (born 19 February 1960 in Clapham, London) is an English actress, best known for her role in the sitcom Men Behaving Badly. Her book My Life Behaving Badly: The Autobiography was published in 2007.
Ash first appeared on TV in 1964 at the age of four asking "Mummy, why are your hands so soft?" in an advertisement for the washing-up product Fairy Liquid. She was educated at the independent Italia Conti Academy stage school, and then started a career as a fashion model appearing on the cover of a number of teen magazines including Jackie for which she was photographed by David Bailey.[citation needed]
Having appeared in the 1978 British slapstick comedy Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse; her first major film role was playing the romantic lead in Quadrophenia in 1979. In 1980, Ash appears in the Iron Maiden music video, Women in Uniform. In 1983 she played Julie Morgan aka Juletta Shane in Curse of the Pink Panther. In 1983 she also appeared opposite Nicky Henson as Nancy in the ITV situation comedy The Happy Apple playing a secretary whose opinions successfully reflected public opinion. She then played a regular role in crime series C.A.T.S. Eyes.
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Liz Kendall
Elizabeth Louise Kendall (born 1971) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester West since 2010.
Kendall grew up in Hertfordshire and attended Watford Grammar School for Girls. She then went up to Queens' College, Cambridge graduating with a first in history in 1993. Unsuccessful in an attempt to become the Labour candidate in Chesterfield for the 2001 general election, she has worked as Director of the Maternity Alliance charity, as a researcher for the King's Fund, as an associate director for health, social care and children’s early years at the IPPR and has been a special adviser to two cabinet ministers,Patricia Hewitt and Harriet Harman.
On 26 May 2010 Kendall posted a picture of the previous day's state opening of parliament on the microblogging website Twitter, in contravention of parliamentary rules. She apologised, saying that she was unaware of the regulations.
She made her maiden speech in the debate "Tackling Poverty in the UK" on 10 June 2010.
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Lucy Panton
Lucy Panton is a British journalist, a former News of the World crime editor, and the seventh person arrested under Operation Elveden on 15 December 2011.
Panton joined the News of the World in September 2002 from the Sunday People, taking up the position of crime correspondent. She was promoted to crime editor in October 2005.
On 30 October 2010, Panton was asked by News of the World news editor James Mellor to find out more from Metropolitan Police anti-terror head John Yates about the printer cartridge bomb found on a cargo plane at East Midlands Airport the previous day. Mellor wrote in an email to Panton:
Panton replied: "Noted. Not got hold of him yet still trying." Panton was on maternity leave at the time of the closure of the newspaper in July 2011.
Panton was arrested at her home in Surrey, where she lives with her Scotland Yard-based Metropolitan Police detective husband. The couple have two young children. She was later released on police bail.
During his evidence to the Leveson Inquiry in March 2012, former Metropolitan Police anti-terror head John Yates admitted that he drunk champagne with Panton and other executives from the tabloid newspaper. Yates denied that he gave Panton any favours in return for such hospitality, or that the relationship between the two was that close.
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Luke Coffey
Luke Coffey (born 1979) is a political adviser and US Army veteran. Coffey formerly worked as a Special Adviser to the Rt. Hon Dr Liam Fox, the Secretary of State for Defence in the United Kingdom. He is also a member of the Council for Emerging National Security Affairs (CENSA) thinktank.
Coffey attended Wentworth Military Academy where he was commissioned in the U.S. Army as a distinguished military graduate of the Reserve Officer Training Corps programme. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in Political Science from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, studied African politics at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa as a visiting undergraduate, and earned a master of science degree in European Union Politics from the London School of Economics.
Prior to British politics Coffey served as a Captain in the US Army as part of the Southern European Task Force (AIRBORNE) based in Vicenza, Italy and deployed to Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom in 2005.
Coffey began is work with the Conservative Party in 2006 in the office of Mark Harper MP. He also worked for Liam Fox when Fox was Shadow Secretary of State for Defence prior to the May 2010 UK General Election.
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Martin Sixsmith
Martin Sixsmith (born 1954) is a British author, journalist and radio/television presenter, primarily working for the BBC. He has also worked as an advisor to the Labour government.
Sixsmith was born in Cheshire and educated at the Manchester Grammar School where he studied Russian to O-level, and subsequently A-level, then at Oxford, Harvard, the Sorbonne University in Paris, and in St. Petersburg (then Leningrad), in Russia. He was a Slavics Tutor at Harvard and wrote his postgraduate thesis about Russian poetry. He met his wife Mary,at university and has four children, the eldest is Joanne. He has a younger brother named Paul.
Sixsmith joined the BBC in 1980 where he worked as a foreign correspondent, most notably reporting from Moscow during the end of the Cold War. He also reported from Poland during the Solidarity uprising and was the BBC’s Washington correspondent during the election and first presidency of Bill Clinton.
Sixsmith left the BBC in 1997 to work for the newly elected government of Tony Blair. He became Director of Communications (a civil service post), working first with Harriet Harman, and Frank Field, then with Alistair Darling. His next position was as a Director of GEC plc, where he oversaw the rebranding of the company as Marconi plc.
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Michael Dugher
Michael Vincent Dugher (26 April 1975) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Barnsley East since 2010.
Born and raised in Edlington, South Yorkshire, he went to school in the village and in Doncaster and graduated from the University of Nottingham. Prior to his election, he worked at 10 Downing Street as the Chief Political Spokesman for Prime Minister Gordon Brown. A party insider, he also worked as an advisor to the Department of Transport, Local Government and Regional Affairs and Ministry of Defence; as well as to the Leader of the House of Commons and the Government Chief Whip. He was formerly the Head of Policy of the trade union, AEEU. He has also been a lobbyist for EDS. Dugher was a Shadow Minister of Defence before becoming the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition. In 2011 he was promoted to Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Minister without Portfolio, a role where he can roam across portfolios and co-ordinate shadow ministers' attacks on the government.
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Neil Wallis
Neil John Wallis (born 4 October 1950) is a former newspaper editor in the United Kingdom.
Wallis was born in Lincolnshire. He attended Skegness Grammar School[citation needed].
Wallis worked for News International from 1986, rising to become Deputy Editor of The Sun from 1993. He left in 1998 and took up the editorship of The People. In 2003, he moved to become Deputy Editor of the News of the World, and in 2007 he became Executive Editor of the paper. In May 2009, he announced that he would be leaving his post later in the year. He was known as "the wolf man" by fellow journalists.
Wallis is a former member of the Editors' Code of Practice Committee at the Press Complaints Commission.
After leaving journalism he worked for the Outside Organisation, a company specialising in public relations, becoming Managing Director in 2010. Wallis' own company, Chamy Media, provided "strategic communication advice and support" to the Metropolitan Police on a part-time basis from October 2009 to September 2010 whilst the Met's Deputy Director of Public Affairs was on extended sick leave.
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Neville Thurlbeck
Neville Thurlbeck is a British journalist who worked for the tabloid newspaper News of the World for 21 years. He reached the position of news editor before returning to the position of chief reporter. Thurlbeck was arrested in April 2011 as part of Operation Weeting. Before the News of the World Thurlbeck worked as a reporter for the Harrow Observer.
Thurlbeck was educated at Bede Grammar School in Sunderland, followed by the University of Lancaster.
In 1998 Thurlbeck was the newspaper journalist who 'outed' the Cabinet Minister Nick Brown as gay. Thurlbeck also broke the story that Jeffrey Archer had committed perjury during his 1987 libel case against the Daily Star. The scoop won Thurlbeck three industry awards including Scoop of the Year 1999 from the London Press Club.
At the turn of the millenium Thurlbeck, under the codename "George", acted as an "unpaid source" for the police. In return he received information from the Police National Computer which principally consisted of the previous convictions of various criminals. In 2000 Thurlbeck and the police officer with whom he worked were cleared of corruption charges with regard to their working relationship.
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Nicholas Lloyd
Sir Nicholas Markley Lloyd, born (1942-06-09) 9 June 1942 (age 70), is a British former newspaper editor and broadcaster.
Lloyd graduated from St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He edited the Sunday People from 1982 to 1983, then moved to edit the News of the World for a year from 1984, and finally edited the Daily Express from 1986 until 1995.
Lloyd received a knighthood in the 1990 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours. He presented a breakfast show on LBC 97.3, a London radio station, from 1997 to 1999. Since 1996, he has been the chairman of the Brown Lloyd James public relations consultancy. He is married to former newspaper editor Eve Pollard, with whom he has a son, Oliver. He also has three children from his previous marriage - Justin, Rachael and James Lloyd.
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Nick Davies
Nick Davies is a British investigative journalist, writer and documentary maker.
Davies has written extensively as a freelancer, as well as for The Guardian and The Observer, and been named Reporter of the Year Journalist of the Year and Feature Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards. He was the winner of the first Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in 1999.
Davies has made documentaries for ITV's World in Action, and written numerous books on the subject of politics and journalism, including Flat Earth News, which attracted considerable controversy as an exposé of journalistic malpractice in the UK and across the globe. As a reporter for The Guardian, Davies was responsible for uncovering the News of the World phone hacking affair, including the July 2011 revelations of hacking into the mobile phone voicemail of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, for which he received the Paul Foot Award 2011.
Davies gained a PPE degree from Oxford University in 1974, and started his journalism career in 1976, working as a trainee for The Mirror Group in Plymouth. He then moved to London initially to work for the Sunday People and spent a year working for The Evening Standard before becoming a news reporter at The Guardian in July 1979. Since then he has worked as home affairs correspondent at The Observer; chief feature writer at London Daily News in 1986 and on-screen reporter for World in Action. After the London Daily News folded he moved to the USA for a year, where he wrote White Lies, about the wrongful conviction of black janitor, Clarence Brandley, for the murder of a white girl. Since 1989 Davies has been a freelance reporter for The Guardian, for which he continues to contribute articles as of 2009, working from his home in Lewes.
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Norman Fowler
(Peter) Norman Fowler, Baron Fowler,PC (born 2 February 1938) is a British Conservative politician who was from 1981 to 1990 a member of Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet.
He was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School in Chelmsford, in the county of Essex; after which he did National Service as a Second Lieutenant in the Essex Regiment. Whilst studying at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he was Chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association in Michaelmas 1960, in which term he entertained both the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Home Secretary (and de facto Deputy Prime Minister, although he did not hold the title until 1962) Rab Butler. He then became a journalist, and worked on The Times.
During the mid 1970s Fowler was shadow Minister of Transport. In April 1976 he was photographed outside the Palace of Westminster having just taken delivery of his third four cylinder MG MGB GT, having reportedly rejected the idea of buying a V8 version on account of the cost. At a time when a recently promoted Minister of Transport had imputed ownership of the family car to his wife, apparently on grounds of political correctness, former journalist Fowler's acknowledgment of his choice of a sports car provided an interesting contrast.
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Patrick Diamond
Patrick Diamond worked as a policy advisor under the Labour Party government of the United Kingdom in a role covering policy and strategy. He was previously a Senior Research Fellow at the International Think Tank Policy Network, where he had been previously the Director. He has previously worked for Tony Blair and Alan Milburn. Diamond came to prominence as an advisor to politician Peter Mandelson shortly before Mandelson's second resignation from government.
Patrick Diamond was brought up and schooled in Leeds. After graduating from Clare College, University of Cambridge, with a double first-class honours in Social and Political Sciences and a M.Phil from the Cambridge Institute of Criminology, Diamond was elected as the National Chair of Labour Students from May 1998 - April 1999. While attending Cambridge University, Diamond was Chair of the Cambridge University Labour Club during the 1997 general election.
Following a brief stint at Finsbury Financial Communications and the Institute for Public Policy Research, Diamond was appointed as Director of the Labour Party organization and magazine Progress. In late 2000, he was made Special Adviser to the then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Rt Hon Peter Mandelson MP.
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Patsy Chapman
Patsy Chapman (born 3 May 1948) is a former British newspaper editor.
Chapman grew up in Romford and worked on the magazine Boyfriend before becoming a reporter with the Romford Times. She then joined The Sun and was gradually promoted to become Deputy Editor. In 1988, she swapped jobs with Wendy Henry to become Editor of the News of the World.
In 1990, Chapman chaired the group which drew up the code of conduct that the Press Complaints Commission subsequently enforced. She was then a member of the first Commission.
Chapman stepped down as editor in early 1994 due to illness.
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Paul Connew
Paul Connew (born 1947) is a British former newspaper editor.
Born in Coventry, Connew attended King Henry VIII Grammar School. He entered journalism with the Coventry Evening Telegraph, then moved to the Coventry Express, and then up to London to work for the Daily Mirror. He worked as Deputy Editor of the News of the World before returning as Deputy Editor of the Mirror. He edited the Sunday Mirror for a short period starting in 1994, and subsequently worked as a consultant for Express Newspapers and TalkSport.
Connew married Lowri Turner in and became a househusband, but the couple split the following year, and divorced in 2004. Connew subsequently worked as Director of Communications for the Sparks charity, and as a judge for the British Press Awards.
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Paul Staines
Paul Staines (born 11 February 1967) is an English-born Irish right-wing political blogger. Writer of the pseudonymous "Guido Fawkes" blog, described by the Daily Telegraph as "one of Britain's leading political blogsites".
Staines acquired an interest in politics as a libertarian in the 1980s and promoted acid house parties in the early 1990s. He then spent several years in finance, before his business relationships broke down in a series of disputes. Staines declared himself bankrupt in October 2003.
Staines was raised a Catholic, attending Salvatorian College Catholic grammar school in Harrow. He lives in Ireland and was a member of the now defunct Irish political party, the Progressive Democrats. He holds Irish citizenship. As a young man he was a member of the Social Democratic Party sitting on the national executive of their youth wing, and the Conservative Party.
In 2002, Staines was banned from driving for 12 months for driving under the influence.
In 2003, he declared himself bankrupt, following lengthy litigation over a commercial dispute.
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Percy Cudlipp
Percy Cudlipp (10 November 1905 – 5 November 1962), was a prominent Welsh journalist.
He was born at 180 Arabella Street, Cardiff, and was the brother of Hugh Cudlipp (later Baron Cudlipp) and Reginald Cudlipp, both notable journalists. Percy Cudlipp began his journalistic career with the South Wales Echo. He became editor of the Evening Standard in 1933 and of the Daily Herald in 1940, and was at one time the youngest editor in Fleet Street.
In 1953, Cudlipp resigned the editorship of the Daily Herald. Shortly afterwards, he was approached by the team setting up the New Scientist and became the first editor of the new magazine in 1956. He died at his home, 11 Falmouth House, Clarendon Place, London.
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Philippa Stroud
Philippa Stroud (born 1965) is a co-founder and former Executive Director of the think tank the Centre for Social Justice. She is a member of the Conservative Party and in 2009 The Daily Telegraph named her as the 82nd most influential right-winger, ahead of the last Conservative leader Michael Howard.
Stroud spent seventeen years in poverty-fighting projects and published a book on social injustice. In 1987-89 Philippa worked in Hong Kong and Macau amongst the addict community. From 1989-96 Philippa pioneered a four-stage residential support project in Bedford enabling homeless people to move off the streets and to become contributing members of the community. From 2001-2003 Philippa developed a project to care for addicts, the homeless and those in debt in Birmingham.
In 2003, Stroud co-founded the Centre for Social Justice. She has twice been a Conservative candidate in a general election: she came third in Birmingham Ladywood in 2005; and on 6 May 2010, as candidate for Sutton and Cheam, she came second to incumbent Liberal Democrat Paul Burstow.
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Piers Morgan
Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan (born Piers Stefan O'Meara; 30 March 1965), known professionally as Piers Morgan, is a British journalist and television presenter. He is editorial director of First News, a national newspaper for children.
Morgan branched into television mainly as a presenter, but has become best known as a judge or contestant in reality television programmes. In the UK, he was a judge on Britain's Got Talent. Morgan is best known in the United States as a judge on the show America's Got Talent, and as the winner of The Celebrity Apprentice. On 17 January 2011, he began hosting Piers Morgan Tonight for CNN in the timeslot previously occupied by Larry King Live after the retirement of host Larry King.
Morgan has authored eight books, including three volumes of memoirs.
Piers Morgan was born on 30 March 1965, in Guildford, Surrey, England, to Eamon Vincent O'Meara, a dentist, of Dorking, Surrey, and Gabrielle Georgina Sybille (née Oliver). His father died when he was one year old; his mother subsequently remarried. He has three older siblings. His ancestry includes Irish, Portuguese, Scottish, and English. Morgan was raised Catholic. Named Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan by his stepfather, Morgan attended an independent school called Cumnor House from the ages of seven to thirteen, and then Chailey School, a comprehensive secondary school in Chailey, near Lewes, East Sussex, followed by Lewes Priory School for VI form. Morgan studied Journalism at Harlow College. After a brief career at Lloyds of London, he joined the Surrey and South London Newspaper Group in 1985, where he worked as a reporter on the South London News, and the Streatham and Tooting News. Morgan was recruited (he says headhunted by editor Kelvin MacKenzie) to join The Sun newspaper, specifically to work on the Bizarre column.
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Polly Billington
Polly Billington (born 1967) is the Chief Adviser to Ed Miliband, leader of the Labour Party, and is the current Labour prospective parliamentary candidate for Thurrock at the next election.
She is a former BBC journalist who worked on the Today programme, among other outlets, before becoming a special adviser to then Cabinet Office Minister and Energy Secretary Ed Miliband. She was the media director for Ed Miliband's successful bid in the Labour leadership election, 2010.
Billington took a postgraduate diploma in broadcast journalism at the department of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Central Lancashire in 1993.
Billington was a BBC reporter for the Today, Radio 1's Newsbeat, BBC News 24 and the Politics Show.
She became a special adviser to Minister for the Cabinet Office Ed Miliband in 2007 when he was working on party policy and election strategy in the Cabinet Office, and according to the Daily Telegraph she is currently the 59th most influential person on the left.
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Rebekah Brooks
Rebekah Mary Brooks (née Wade; born 27 May 1968) is a British journalist and former newspaper editor. She was Chief Executive Officer of News International from 2009 to 2011, having previously served as the youngest editor of a British national newspaper as editor of the News of the World - from 2000 to 2003 - and the first female editor of The Sun - from 2003 to 2009. Brooks married actor Ross Kemp in 2002. They divorced in 2009 and she married former racehorse trainer and author Charlie Brooks.
Brooks is a prominent figure in the News International phone hacking scandal, having been the editor of the News of the World when illegal phone hacking was allegedly carried out by the newspaper. On 15 July 2011, Brooks resigned as chief executive of News International, following widespread criticism of her role in the controversy. On 17 July 2011, she was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and on suspicion of corruption - making corrupt payments to public officials. On 13 March 2012, she was again arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. On 15 May 2012, Brooks was charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Mrs Brooks said she was “baffled” by the decision to charge her. Mr Brooks said he believed his wife had become 'the subject of a witch-hunt'.
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Rebekah Wade
Rebekah Mary Brooks (née Wade; born 27 May 1968) is a British journalist and former newspaper editor. She was Chief Executive Officer of News International from 2009 to 2011, having previously served as the youngest editor of a British national newspaper as editor of the News of the World - from 2000 to 2003 - and the first female editor of The Sun - from 2003 to 2009. Brooks married actor Ross Kemp in 2002. They divorced in 2009 and she married former racehorse trainer and author Charlie Brooks.
Brooks is a prominent figure in the News International phone hacking scandal, having been the editor of the News of the World when illegal phone hacking was allegedly carried out by the newspaper. On 15 July 2011, Brooks resigned as chief executive of News International, following widespread criticism of her role in the controversy. On 17 July 2011, she was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and on suspicion of corruption - making corrupt payments to public officials. On 13 March 2012, she was again arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. On 15 May 2012, Brooks was charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Mrs Brooks said she was “baffled” by the decision to charge her. Mr Brooks said he believed his wife had become 'the subject of a witch-hunt'.
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Reg Cudlipp
Reginald Cudlipp (11 December 1910–21 January 2005) was a British newspaper editor.
Cudlipp was born in Cardiff and was the second of three brothers. He followed his older brother, Percy, to become a journalist on the Penarth News, before joined the Western Mail as a sub-editor. In 1938, he became a sub-editor on the News of the World, based in London.
Cudlipp joined the Royal Artillery during World War II. He spent much of his time in the Army as associate editor of Phoenix Magazine. At the end of the war became the News of the World's New York correspondent. He returned to London in 1948, and was promoted to become editor in 1953. Both Percy and his younger brother Hugh had already edited national newspapers.
As editor, Cudlipp maintained the paper's reputation for reporting on sex scandals and serialising romantic novels. However, circulation fell from eight million to six-and-a-half million copies per issue, and he resigned in 1959. In 1961, he became director of the Anglo-Japanese Economic Institute and edited Japan, its journal. He remained director until 1986, and in 1982 was the first Briton to be awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure.
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Robert Skelton
Robert Lumley Skelton (4 October 1896–11 August 1973) was a British newspaper editor.
Skelton grew up in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and attended Rutherford College. During World War I, he served in the Durham Light Infantry from 1914, but was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps as a pilot in 1918. After the war, he took up journalism, and became editor of the Natal Witness in 1928. Returning to the UK in 1933, he was appointed Managing Editor of the Daily Telegraph, serving until 1948, when he became Editor of the News of the World. In later years, he served as Chairman and Managing Director of Curzon-Grantham Advertising.
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Rupert Murdoch
Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian American media mogul. Murdoch became managing director of Australia's News Limited, inherited from his father, in 1952. He is the founder, Chairman and CEO of global media holding company the News Corporation, the world's second-largest media conglomerate.
In the 1950s and '60s, he acquired various newspapers in Australia and New Zealand, before expanding into the United Kingdom in 1969, taking over the News of the World followed closely by The Sun. He moved to New York in 1974 to expand into the US market and became a naturalised US citizen in 1985. In 1981, he bought The Times, his first British broadsheet.
In 1986, keen to adopt newer electronic publishing technologies, he consolidated his UK printing operations in Wapping, causing bitter industrial disputes. His News Corporation acquired Twentieth Century Fox (1985), HarperCollins (1989) and The Wall Street Journal (2007). He formed BSkyB in 1990 and during the 1990s expanded into Asian networks and South American television. By 2000 Murdoch's News Corporation owned over 800 companies in more than 50 countries with a net worth of over $5 billion.
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Sara Payne
Sara Payne MBE (born 1968) is a British media campaigner.
Payne was born Sara-Jane Williams in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England.[citation needed] Since the murder of her daughter Sarah in July 2000, she has campaigned for parents to be given the right to know if a convicted paedophile is living in their community. Initially, the then Home Secretary David Blunkett refused to allow any public access to the information, and several child care agencies and police forces condemned Payne's campaigning amid fears that it could trigger vigilante violence. However, in 2008, eight years after the start of the campaign, a pilot scheme was introduced by four British police forces. If successful, it may be extended across the country in the future.
Her book, Sara Payne: A Mother's Story, was published in 2004.
On 31 December 2008, Payne was made an MBE in the New Year Honours list. On 26 January 2009, she was appointed Victims Champion by the Justice Secretary Jack Straw.
On 23 December 2009, Payne was taken to St George's Hospital, Tooting, south London, following complications after brain surgery in 2008 to cure a ruptured aneurysm. On 24 December 2009, it was stated that she was critically ill. Later reports indicated that she had responded well to treatment.
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Sarah Southern
Sarah Southern (born 1980, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England) is a British businesswoman and former Conservative Party official and aide to Prime Minister David Cameron. In 2012, she became embroiled in the so-called "Cash for Access" controversy after undercover journalists from The Sunday Times filmed the Conservative co-treasurer Peter Cruddas apparently offering access to the Prime Minister and his Chancellor George Osborne for £250,000. Southern is alleged to have introduced the journalists to Cruddas, while boasting to friends she had made "a tidy sum" by introducing people to the Prime Minister.
Southern briefly attended South Africa's Stellenbosch University before reading Politics and International Relations at the UK's University of Reading, completing the degree in 2001. Following her graduation she took a job at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs where she was employed as a press officer, but left the post seven months later to work for the Conservative Party. Initially she was the national organiser of the party's youth movement, Conservative Future, but went on from this to hold a number of positions over the next several years. Later roles within the Tory Party include project manager for oversees voluntary project, Secretary-General of the International Young Democrat Union and senior event manager. She was appointed to the latter post in December 2009 and during the year she held the position claims to have become a close and trusted aide to Party leader David Cameron. During the 2010 general election campaign she was a member of the party's media strategy team.
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Sean Hoare
Sean Hoare (c. 1963 – c. 17 July 2011) was a British entertainment journalist. He contributed to articles on show business, from actors to reality television stars. He played a central role in contributing to exposing the News International phone hacking scandal.
Hoare was described as by The Guardian's Nick Davies as "coming from a working-class background of solid Arsenal supporters, always voted Labour, defined himself specifically as a 'clause IV' socialist who still believed in public ownership of the means of production." Hoare was a trainee reporter in the 1980s for the Watford Observer.
He was a reporter for The Sun before joining the The Sunday People, under editor Neil Wallis. He moved to the News of the World in June 2001, under editor Rebekah Brooks (then Rebekah Wade) but was sacked in 2005 by then editor Andy Coulson for drink and drug problems. He said in regards to his drug taking while employed by the News of the World, "I was paid to go out and take drugs with rock stars – get drunk with them, take pills with them, take cocaine with them. It was so competitive. You are going to go beyond the call of duty. You are going to do things that no sane man would do. You're in a machine." He claims to have often taken "three grammes of cocaine a day, spending about £1,000 a week" and would drink Jack Daniel's, and then would snort a line of cocaine as part of a "rock star's breakfast". His health deteriorated to the point that the doctor examining his liver remarked that he "must be dead". A former colleague said, "if you could imagine the stereotypical image of News of the World hack, it would be he."
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Sheryl Gascoigne
Sheryl Gasgoigne (née Failes; born 24 September 1965) is a British television personality and author. She is the former wife of footballer Paul Gascoigne and the mother of glamour model Bianca Gascoigne. Her television career includes a presenting role on ITV1's Loose Women, and she appeared as a contestant on the tenth series of the UK version of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.
Sheryl Gascoigne rose to prominence because of her high-profile relationship, and later marriage, to footballer Paul Gascoigne. Having met in around 1990, they were married in Hatfield, Hertfordshire in July 1996. However, the marriage was a turbulent and ultimately short-lived one, ending in divorce in August 1998. Paul had experienced difficulties with alcoholism and had been abusive towards his wife. In a July 1994 interview with a Sunday newspaper Paul Gascoigne admitted beating Sheryl on a regular basis for two years. The couple later tried to reconcile, but without success.
Following her divorce in 1998 Sheryl Gascoigne campaigned for victims of domestic violence, and became a television personality. Among her credits include presenting role on ITV1's Loose Women and appearances in numerous television documentaries. In 2010 she appeared on series ten of I'm a Celebrity Get...Me Out of Here!. Having turned down an offer to appear on the programme earlier in the year, she was persuaded to join after one of the other contestants, Gail Porter was forced to drop out, and she was allegedly offered a higher fee to take part. She was the first contestant to be voted off after 13 days.
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Sienna Miller
Sienna Rose Miller (born December 28, 1981) is an American born English actress, model, and fashion designer. She is best known for her roles in Layer Cake, Alfie, Factory Girl, The Edge of Love and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. In 2007, the London Film Critics named her British Actress of the Year for Interview. In 2006, she designed a fashion capsule for Pepe Jeans.
Born in a theatre in New York City, Miller moved to London with her family when she was just over a year old. Her mother, Josephine, is a South African-born former model. Her father, Edwin Miller, is an American banker turned dealer of Chinese art. Miller has a sister, Savannah, and two half-brothers, Charles and Stephen. Miller attended Heathfield St Mary's School, a boarding school in Ascot, Berkshire, and later studied for a year at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City. She carries both British and American passports, and acquired her first driving licence in the US Virgin Islands, as it was easier to qualify there, thus allowing her to drive in both the US and UK.
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Stafford Somerfield
Stafford Somerfield (9 January 1911–14 January 1995) was a British newspaper editor.
Born in Barnstaple, Somerfield worked at the Express and Echo, then moved to London as a journalist on the Daily Telegraph and the News Chronicle. During World War II he served with the Gloucestershire Regiment, rising to become a major.
When the war ended, Somerfield joined the News of the World, and in 1960 he was appointed as its editor. He prioritised shocking stories, and printed explicit details of Diana Dors and Christine Keeler's lives. He often fell into conflict with the Press Council, particularly after paying David Smith, chief prosecution witness in the Moors murders case, on condition that the suspects were convicted.
Somerfield opposed Rupert Murdoch's purchase of the News of the World. He refused to resign, and in 1970 instead took an offer of £100,000 to leave. In retirement, he became a judge at Crufts and wrote columns on dog-related matters.
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Stephen Hale
Stephen Hale OBE is Deputy and Advocacy Campaigns director of Oxfam International, and head of the Geneva office of Oxfam International.
From 2006 - April 2010 he was the director of Green Alliance, an independent charity and green think tank working on environment policy in the United Kingdom. He was a trustee of Christian Aid from 2007 - 10.
He worked previously at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, as special adviser to secretary of state Rt Hon Margaret Beckett MP from 2003–06 and, before that, as adviser to environment minister Rt Hon Michael Meacher MP from 2002-03. Formerly, he was a senior consultant at ERM[disambiguation needed
], an international environmental consultancy. He was also active in SERA (the environmental group affiliated to the Labour Party), serving as chair in 2001-02 and as vice-chair from 1999-2001.
He is the author of The new commandments of climate change strategy and The new politics of climate change (2008) and is currently the third sector chair of the ministerial task force on climate change, the environment and sustainable development.
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Steve Coogan
Stephen John "Steve" Coogan (born 14 October 1965) is a BAFTA-winning English actor, comedian, writer, impressionist and producer. Born in Middleton, Lancashire, he began his career as a stand-up comedian and impressionist, working as a voice artist throughout the 1980s on satirical puppet show Spitting Image. In the early 1990s, Coogan began creating original comic characters which he presented in stage shows, this led to him winning the 1992 Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe, for his show with long-time collaborator John Thomson. The most prominent characters he developed at this time were Paul Calf, a stereotypical lower class Mancunian and his sister the promiscuous Pauline (played by Coogan in drag).
Working with Chris Morris, Patrick Marber and Armando Iannucci for On the Hour and The Day Today, Coogan developed his most popular and most developed character; Alan Partridge, a socially awkward and politically incorrect regional media personality, who developed to feature in his own eponymous television series, Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge and I'm Alan Partridge, which were well received and were nominated for five BAFTAs in total. Outside the UK, Coogan is better known for his roles in films including 24 Hour Party People, The Wind in the Willows, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Night at the Museum, Tropic Thunder, Hamlet 2, A Cock and Bull Story, The Trip and The Other Guys.
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Steve Hilton
Steve Hilton (born 25 August 1969) is a former director of strategy for David Cameron, Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom.
Hilton is the son of Hungarian immigrants called Hircsák (alternative spelling: Hircksac), who fled their home during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and anglicized their name to Hilton when they fled their homeland for Britain as migrants, initially claiming asylum. He won a scholarship to Christ's Hospital School in Horsham before reading Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at New College, Oxford.
After graduating, Hilton joined Conservative Central Office, where he came to know David Cameron and Rachel Whetstone, his future wife and Global VP of Public Affairs and Communications for Google. He liaised with the party's favourite advertising firm, Saatchi and Saatchi, and was praised by Maurice Saatchi, who remarked, "No one reminds me as much of me when young as Steve." During this time Hilton came up with the "New Labour, New Danger" demon eyes poster campaign for the Conservative's pre-general election campaign in 1996, which won an award from the advertising industry's Campaign magazine at the beginning of 1997. In 2005, Hilton lost out to future Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove in the selection process for the Surrey Heath constituency.
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Stuart Higgins
Stuart Higgins is a British public relations consultant and former newspaper editor.
Higgins began his career as a reporter for a news agency, then began working for The Sun in 1979. He soon became the newspaper's Royal Correspondent, during which time he tested security at Highgrove House. At one point, Kelvin MacKenzie printed Higgins' direct phone number in The Sun, billed him as the Human Sponge and asked readers to call him to "get things off their chest". In 1994, Higgins succeeded MacKenzie as editor of the newspaper.
Higgins left The Sun in 1998 after being accused of sexual harassment during his time at The Sun following a complaint from a former executive secretary. It was reported that News International paid the employee £500,000 'hush' money in return for the allegations to go no further. Higgins then went on to set up his own public relations company.
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Stuart Kuttner
Stuart Kuttner (born 1939 or 1940) former newspaper editor. He worked as the news editor for the London Evening Standard before joining the News of the World newspaper in 1980 first as a deputy editor, then as managing editor. He held the position for 22 years before stepping down from his post in 2009 and retiring to Woodford Green. He was arrested on 2 August 2011, in connection with the News International phone hacking scandal and later bailed. He was 71 at the time of his arrest.
Kuttner was closely involved with the campaign for Sarah's Law. It was for this work that he and a colleague were awarded the "team of the year" prize at the 2002 British Press Awards. Upon leaving the News of the World he stated that he would continue to work with the paper on "specialised projects" including campaigning for parents to be able to find out if registered sex offenders are resident in their area.
Kuttner was arrested by appointment on 2 August 2011 by officers involved in Operation Weeting on suspicion of corruption, contrary to Section 1 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906 and on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, contrary to Section 1 (1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977, the same charges as had been laid against former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks just over two weeks earlier. He was initially released under police bail until the end of the month but was taken into custody again on 30 August and bailed until an unspecified date in September.
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Sue Akers
Sue Akers, QPM, is a Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the British Metropolitan Police Service. As of 2011, she holds the post of Head of Organised Crime & Criminal Networks in the Specialist Crime Directorate within that force.
She joined the force in 1976.
She was promoted by the Metropolitan Police Authority from the rank of Chief Superintendent to Commander in 2004.
She was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in 2007.
As of February 2011, she was leading Operation Weeting, the most recent British police investigation into allegations of phone hacking in the News of the World phone hacking affair. In July 2011, as the result of documents submitted to Operation Weeting, she also took on the leadership of a related investigation, Operation Elveden.She is also in charge of a third investigation, Operation Tuleta, which is looking at allegations that computers were hacked to obtain private information.Akers has also been leading police inquiries into the potential involvement of intelligence services in relation to detainees held abroad.
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Sue Nye
Susan Jane Nye, Baroness Nye (born 17 May 1955) is the former Director of Government Relations and former diary secretary to ex-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
On 20 July 2010 she was became a Labour Party Peer, as Baroness Nye, of Lambeth in the London Borough of Lambeth.
She was born at King's College Hospital. She initially lived on Leander Street in Brixton. She went to a local primary school. Her father left the home and moved to South Africa, and her mother moved to Leigh-on-Sea. She passed the eleven-plus and went to Westcliff High School for Girls.
Civil Service background, later 'paid employee of the Labour Party' and 'ran major aspects of' Michael Foot's office when he became Labour Party leader.
Nye's friendship with Tony Blair's political secretary Anji Hunter provided a back channel between the warring factions during Blair's premiership.
Nye is the person to whom Gordon Brown refers in the Rochdale gaffe incident during the 2010 election campaign.
In The Deal, she was portrayed by Joanna Scanlan.
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Sydney Elliott
Sydney Robert Elliott (31 August 1902–9 October 1987) was a British newspaper editor.
Born on Clydeside, Elliott became involved in the co-operative movement. In the late 1920s he moved to Manchester to become editor of the monthly co-operative journal The Millgate Monthly. In 1929, the Sunday newspaper Reynold's News was bought by the Co-operative Press, and Elliott was appointed as its editor. He worked on updating the appearance of the paper, and appointed well-known figures such as H. N. Brailsford and Hamilton Fyfe as columnists. In 1937, he wrote a comprehensive account of the movement, England: Cradle of Co-operation, while he also launched the United Peace Alliance to campaign against Franco in the Spanish Civil War. This soon became the focus of unsuccessful attempts by communists and left-wing members of the Labour Party to create a popular front.
In 1941 Elliott moved to London to work on the Evening Standard, then showing sympathy with radical causes under its editor, Michael Foot. He succeeded Foot as editor in 1943, but left in the run-up to the 1945 UK general election after owner Lord Beaverbrook began putting pressure on him to advocate a vote for the Conservative Party. He became Editorial Advisor at the Daily Mirror, where he masterminded its campaign to support the Labour Party at the 1945 election. He later moved to supervise the Mirror's newspaper and radio operations in Australia, but returned to become General Manager of the Daily Herald in 1952.
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Tessa Jowell
Tessa Jowell (born 17 September 1947) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dulwich and West Norwood since 1992. Formerly a member of both the Blair and Brown Cabinets, she is currently the Shadow Minister for the Olympics and Shadow Minister for London.
Tessa Jane Helen Palmer was born in Marylebone, London to Dr. Kenneth Palmer, a physician, and Rosemary Palmer, a radiographer. She was educated at the public school St Margaret's School for Girls in Aberdeen, the University of Aberdeen, the University of Edinburgh and Goldsmiths College, University of London. She became a social worker and eventually administrator of the mental health charity Mind.
In 1978 she was Labour Party candidate in a by-election in Ilford North but lost Labour's majority to the Conservatives. She also stood in Ilford North, again unsuccessfully, at the 1979 general election.
Elected as MP for Dulwich at the 1992 general election, she was successively appointed as an opposition spokesman on health, an opposition whip and spokesman on women before returning to the shadow health team in 1996.
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Tom Bentley
Tom Bentley is an author and policy analyst based in Australia. Bentley was born and educated in the United Kingdom where he gained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Oxford.
Bentley was formerly Executive Director for Policy and Cabinet for the Premier of Victoria, Australia, and is currently Deputy Chief of Staff to Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and part-time director of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government. Between 1998 and 2006 he was director of DEMOS - described by The Economist as ‘Britain's most influential think tank'. Prior to his role at Demos he was a special adviser to David Blunkett MP, then Secretary of State for Education and Employment, where he worked on issues including school curriculum reform, social inclusion, creativity, citizenship, adult skills and area-based regeneration. He has been a Trustee and Chair of the Learning Programme for the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) and a Trustee of the Community Action Network in London.
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Tom Crone
Tom Crone is a British barrister, last working for News International as Legal Affairs manager, before he resigned during the News International phone hacking scandal.
Crone qualified as a barrister, and after five years of private practise joined Mirror Group Newspapers. In 1985, he joined News International, appointed as Legal Affairs manager. During his time at the group, acting for The Sun and the News of the World, he won plaudits from both colleagues and rivals for his unerring journalistic instinct: "He is a unique lawyer in that he has great journalistic instincts. He is sort of 10% journalist and is incredibly streetwise." A close personal friend of the late George Carman QC, Crone was one of the first media managers to use libel defence specialist John Kelsey-Fry QC. He also hit out at then Attorney General for England and Wales Lord Goldsmith for clamping down on media coverage of high-profile cases, such as the allegations of rape made against a group of Premier League footballers, before they go to trial.
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Tom Mockridge
Tom Mockridge (born 1955 in New Zealand), is the chief executive of News International, replacing Rebekah Brooks who resigned over the phone hacking scandal.
Mockridge began his career in his native New Zealand; starting in 1977 as a reporter for the New Plymouth-based Taranaki Daily News in the small central North Island town of Taumarunui.
He moved to Australia in 1980, working first for the Sydney Morning Herald as economics editor, then as an adviser for the Australian Treasurer Paul Keating. He also worked for The Australian. He joined News Limited in January 1991, where he was assistant CEO to Ken Cowley until 1996. He then became CEO of Foxtel, a post which he held for three years. Mockridge then moved to Hong Kong.
Appointed managing director of Independent Newspapers in 2001, New Zealand's largest newspaper publisher and a subsidiary of News Corp, he was also appointed President of pay TV group Sky New Zealand.
In 2002, Mockridge led the merger between Stream TV and Tele+, which resulted in the creation of Sky Italia. On completion of the merger, he was appointed CEO of Sky Italia. In 2008 Mockridge was appointed Managing Director of European Television (all News Corps TV assets outside the UK), reporting to James Murdoch. He was later appointed to the board of British Sky Broadcasting, a position he still holds.
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Tom Scholar
Thomas Whinfield Scholar, known commonly as Tom Scholar, is a British Civil Servant who is a director of the nationalised bank, Northern Rock and was previously Chief of Staff for Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street. He is currently the Second Permanent Secretary to the Treasury and heads the department's International and Finance Directorate.
His father, Michael Scholar, is also a Civil Servant, currently employed as the non-executive chairman of the British Government's Statistics Board and President of St John's College, Oxford.
Tom Scholar was previously an Executive Director (ED) at the World Bank.
He was educated at Dulwich College (1979–1986),Trinity Hall, Cambridge and the London School of Economics.
He has two younger brothers, Richard and John
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Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He resigned from all of these positions in June 2007.
Blair was elected Leader of the Labour Party in the leadership election of July 1994, following the sudden death of his predecessor, John Smith. Under his leadership, the party used the phrases "New Labour" and "New Socialism" to define its policy, and moved away from its support of state socialism since the 1960s and created a new version of the ethical socialism that was last pursued by Clement Attlee. Critics of Blair claim that "New Labour" did not adhere to socialism as claimed, and that it effectively advocated capitalism. Blair subsequently led Labour to a landslide victory in the 1997 general election. At 43 years old, he became the youngest Prime Minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812. In the first years of the New Labour government, Blair's government implemented a number of 1997 manifesto pledges, introducing the minimum wage, Human Rights Act and Freedom of Information Act, and carrying out devolution, establishing the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales, and the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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Wendi Deng Murdoch
Wendi Deng Murdoch (simplified Chinese: 邓文迪; traditional Chinese: 鄧文迪; pinyin: Dèng Wéndí; born December 8, 1968) is a Chinese-born American businesswoman. She is the third wife of News Corporation Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, and is leading her husband's Chinese media investments.
In 1988, Murdoch was sponsored by an American family for a student visa. She attended Cal State Northridge for economics and completed her master's degree in business at the Yale School of Management, where she currently serves on the board of advisors. Murdoch's debut in the media came with Fox TV. She was offered an internship at Star TV, Hong Kong, part of News Corporation.
Wendi Deng Murdoch was born in Jinan, Shandong, and raised in Xuzhou, Jiangsu. Her birth name was Deng Wenge (邓文革), which literally means "Cultural Revolution". She changed it in her teens when a more open and international mood took hold. Murdoch is the third of four children (three daughters, one son) born to engineers. Murdoch attended Xuzhou First Secondary School and Xuzhou No. 1 Middle School. She developed a strong interest in playing volleyball. While in high school, Murdoch's father relocated to Hangzhou, where he worked at the People's Machinery Works; she and her family remained behind for a short while. In 1985, when she was 16 years old, Murdoch enrolled in Guangzhou Medical College.
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Wendy Henry
Wendy Henry is a former journalist and newspaper editor.
Wendy moved with her twin sister Sara from her mother's house in St Annes on Sea to Manchester in the late 1960s to live with their father, a Jewish market trader. By the age of eighteen, she had a child.
In their youth, Henry and her sister were active socialists, joining the International Socialists and later the International-Communist League. In 1972, she was given an absolute discharge after being accused of attempting to throw a carton of milk at Edward Heath when he visited Salford. Her involvement in radical activism at the University of Manchester was spotted by Brian Whittle, Brian Taylor and Peter Reece, who took her on at the Manchester News Service.
In the 1970s, Henry had a six month trial with the Daily Mail, but was not given a permanent position at the end of the trial. She worked as a freelance before joining the features department of the News of the World, then became features editor of Woman. She then became series editor of The Sun, followed by a stint as woman's editor, then assistant editor (features). According to Roy Greenslade, during the Falklands War, when she heard that the General Belgrano had been sunk, she joked "Gotcha!", which was used by editor Kelvin MacKenzie as a famous Sun headline. In 1983, she was suspended for two weeks after fabricating an interview with Falklands veteran Simon Weston. She was the first journalist to report that Princess Margaret was having a relationship with Roddy Llewellyn.
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William Mellor
William Mellor (1888–1942) was a left-wing British journalist.
Mellor joined the Daily Herald in 1913 as a journalist, and was imprisoned during the First World War as a conscientious objector, returning to the Herald on his release. A Guild Socialist during the 1910s, he worked closely with G. D. H. Cole, founding the National Guilds League with him in 1915. He was a founder-member of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1920, but resigned in 1924. He became editor of the Herald in 1926, succeeding George Lansbury when the Trades Union Congress took over the paper, and was fired in 1930 soon after Odhams Press took half-ownership with the TUC. He was the first editor of Tribune in 1937-38 and was sacked after falling out with Stafford Cripps over the latter’s proposals for a Popular Front of socialist and non-socialist parties against fascism. For the last 10 years of his life, though married with a family, he conducted an affair with the young Barbara Castle.
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Willie Rennie
William Cowan "Willie" Rennie (born 27 September 1967) is a Scottish politician and current Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats.
After college, Rennie spent most of his early career as a Liberal Democrat election campaigner and official before working as a public relations consultant in the private sector. He became the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dunfermline and West Fife after a by-election win in February 2006.
He later lost this seat to Labour in the May 2010 UK general election but was subsequently appointed in the same month by the newly formed UK Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition as a Special Government Adviser working successively for the Liberal Democrat Scottish Secretaries of State Danny Alexander MP and Michael Moore MP at the Scotland Office.
He later resigned from his special adviser role in June 2010 to stand for the Scottish Parliament in the May 2011 elections. Despite the overall collapse of the party in the election he managed to be elected as an additional member for the Mid Scotland and Fife region with 5.9% of the regional list vote. He was soon after elected unopposed as leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrat party, replacing Tavish Scott.
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From The Guardian . Ex News of the World editor & UK Prime Minister David Cameron's Spin Doctor Andy Coulson , who was investigated by Scottish police over p...
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George Osborne at Leveson Inquiry: I thought Andy Coulson was strong candidate for job
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Chancellor George Osborne tells the Leveson Inquiry he asked Andy Coulson about phone hacking before he recommended him to become the Conservative Party's co...
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Chancellor George Osborne tells the Leveson Inquiry he asked Andy Coulson about phone hacking before he recommended him to become the Conservative Party's co...
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Andy Coulson's Arrest for Perjury - Have I Got News for You - Series 43 Episode 8 - BBC One
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More about this programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jk61n Alastair Campbell hosts, with Paul and Ian joined by Ross Noble and Nick Hewer.
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Andy Coulson Chaired Meetings Where Hacking Was Openly Discussed - NOTW Phone Hacking *NEW*
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Spin doctor Andy Coulson "didn't condone" phone tapping
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Former News of the World editor and Tory spin doctor Andy Coulson has told MPs he "didn't condone hacking" into phones of public figures.. Follow us on twitt...
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Former News of the World editor and Tory spin doctor Andy Coulson has told MPs he "didn't condone hacking" into phones of public figures.. Follow us on twitt...
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Andy Coulson (Phone Hacker) his Phone Number. I fear he would change his number by now ?
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THE REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED . Episode 3.
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THE REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED . Episode 3.
- published: 06 Sep 2012
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- author: FourJamLions
Former editor arrested
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Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson has been arrested over phone hacking.
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Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson has been arrested over phone hacking.
- published: 01 Nov 2012
- views: 2408
- author: pressassociation
Question Time - Baroness Williams: Andy Coulson A Brilliant Liar [07.07.2011]
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- Duration: 1:52
- Updated: 22 Feb 2012
Question Time, the BBC's premier political debate programme came from Basingstoke on Thursday 7 July. Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the W...
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Question Time, the BBC's premier political debate programme came from Basingstoke on Thursday 7 July. Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the W...
- published: 09 Jul 2011
- views: 4216
- author: NOTWPhoneHacking
Court Date for: Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and Six Others
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- Duration: 1:10
- Updated: 27 Sep 2012
Following the appearance yesterday at the Old Bailey of, Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and other senior employees over their part in the alleged phone hacking...
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Following the appearance yesterday at the Old Bailey of, Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and other senior employees over their part in the alleged phone hacking...
- published: 27 Sep 2012
- views: 65
- author: IBTimesUK
Coulson and Brooks face new charges
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- Duration: 0:57
- Updated: 02 Jan 2013
Subscribe for the latest news from The Press Association: http://bit.ly/RvMVLq The Crown Prosecution Service said five people are to face action as part of t...
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Subscribe for the latest news from The Press Association: http://bit.ly/RvMVLq The Crown Prosecution Service said five people are to face action as part of t...
- published: 20 Nov 2012
- views: 159
- author: pressassociation
Leveson Inquiry: PM's former press chief Andy Coulson appears
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- Duration: 1:40
- Updated: 16 Aug 2012
Andy Coulson, the prime minister's former communications chief, has started to give evidence at the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics. Which today, turns its...
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Andy Coulson, the prime minister's former communications chief, has started to give evidence at the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics. Which today, turns its...
- published: 10 May 2012
- views: 150
- author: IBTimesUK
Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson trial date set for September 2013
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- Duration: 2:19
- Updated: 26 Sep 2012
Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson trial date set for September 2013 Story from: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/sep/26/rebekah-brooks-andy-coulson-trial-d...
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Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson trial date set for September 2013 Story from: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/sep/26/rebekah-brooks-andy-coulson-trial-d...
- published: 26 Sep 2012
- views: 60
- author: elizacassanpicus
Rebekah brooks and Andy Coulson charged
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- Duration: 2:06
- Updated: 16 Dec 2012
Rebekah brooks and Andy Coulson charged. itvnews1685 videos. Subscribe Subscribed Unsubscribe. 55 views. Like 2 Dislike 0. Like ... Rebekah Brooks Leveson Inquiry LOL Cameronby testtransmission19841185 views; Newsdesk Live Will the charges against Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson affect Downing Street 148. Watch Later Newsdesk Live Will the charges against Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson affect Downing Streetby theguardian205 views; Rebekah Brooks and others charged with ...
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Rebekah brooks and Andy Coulson charged. itvnews1685 videos. Subscribe Subscribed Unsubscribe. 55 views. Like 2 Dislike 0. Like ... Rebekah Brooks Leveson Inquiry LOL Cameronby testtransmission19841185 views; Newsdesk Live Will the charges against Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson affect Downing Street 148. Watch Later Newsdesk Live Will the charges against Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson affect Downing Streetby theguardian205 views; Rebekah Brooks and others charged with ...
- published: 20 Nov 2012
- views: 57
- author: ITVNews
David Cameron at the Leveson Inquiry: 'Andy Coulson's appointment has come back to haunt me'
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- Duration: 2:37
- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
The Prime Minister says his former head of communications was an effective but controversial appointment.
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The Prime Minister says his former head of communications was an effective but controversial appointment.
- published: 14 Jun 2012
- views: 1023
- author: telegraphtv
Leveson Inquiry: PCC 'Mistake' Over Andy Coulson
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- Duration: 1:26
- Updated: 06 Feb 2012
PCC 'Mistake' Over Andy Coulson Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Phone Hacking' YouTube channel @ http://www.youtube.com/subscript...
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PCC 'Mistake' Over Andy Coulson Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Phone Hacking' YouTube channel @ http://www.youtube.com/subscript...
- published: 05 Feb 2012
- views: 268
- author: NOTWPhoneHacking
Daniel Morgenstern's animated portraits of Andy Coulson, Rebekah Brooks and Rupert Murdoch
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- Duration: 2:20
- Updated: 01 Feb 2013
Portrait of Andy Coulson, Rebekah Brooks and Rupert Murdoch by Daniel Morgenstern, taken apart interactively for ZOOZ Magazine.
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Portrait of Andy Coulson, Rebekah Brooks and Rupert Murdoch by Daniel Morgenstern, taken apart interactively for ZOOZ Magazine.
- published: 01 Feb 2013
- views: 12
- author: Daniel Morgenstern
Coulson: 'A sad day for the News of the World'
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- Duration: 0:35
- Updated: 14 Sep 2012
Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson says the News of the World staff are "brilliant, professional people". Like us on Facebook at http://www.faceboo...
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Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson says the News of the World staff are "brilliant, professional people". Like us on Facebook at http://www.faceboo...
- published: 09 Jul 2011
- views: 1779
- author: itnnews
Andy Coulson To Be Arrested - NOTW Phone Hacking *NEW*
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- Duration: 2:35
- Updated: 10 Jul 2011
This video tells of how David Camerons ex-right hand man will be arrested on Friday 8th July. Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Pho...
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This video tells of how David Camerons ex-right hand man will be arrested on Friday 8th July. Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Pho...
- published: 08 Jul 2011
- views: 512
- author: NOTWPhoneHacking
Tea tray Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson leaves his home to go out with
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- Duration: 0:21
- Updated: 01 Dec 2012
Tea tray Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson leaves his home to go out with.
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Tea tray Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson leaves his home to go out with.
- published: 01 Dec 2012
- views: 1
- author: CelebritiesPic
UK: Coulson, Brooks to Be Charged Over Hacking
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- Duration: 0:48
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
British authorities are charging former David Cameron aide Andy Coulson, former Rupert Murdoch protege Rebekah Brooks, and six others for their roles in Brit...
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British authorities are charging former David Cameron aide Andy Coulson, former Rupert Murdoch protege Rebekah Brooks, and six others for their roles in Brit...
- published: 24 Jul 2012
- views: 966
- author: AssociatedPress
Sheridan calls for conviction review
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- Duration: 1:18
- Updated: 02 Jan 2013
Tommy Sheridan says he believes Andy Coulson's arrest on perjury charges "marks the first in the journey towards the quashing of my conviction, which was uns...
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Tommy Sheridan says he believes Andy Coulson's arrest on perjury charges "marks the first in the journey towards the quashing of my conviction, which was uns...
- published: 30 May 2012
- views: 224
- author: pressassociation
Andy Coulson at a park in south London London England...
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- Duration: 0:36
- Updated: 01 Dec 2012
Andy Coulson at a park in south London London England...
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Andy Coulson at a park in south London London England...
- published: 30 Nov 2012
- views: 1
- author: CelebritiesPic
Andy Coulson Talks About Phone Hacking To Commons Select Committee - NOTW Phone Hacking
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- Duration: 0:45
- Updated: 25 Mar 2012
In this video, Andy Coulson talks about phone-hacking in front of Commons select committee in 2009. Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the Wor...
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In this video, Andy Coulson talks about phone-hacking in front of Commons select committee in 2009. Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the Wor...
- published: 07 Jul 2011
- views: 1392
- author: NOTWPhoneHacking
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Andy Coulson evidence to the Leveson inquiry into NOTW phone hacking
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- Duration: 5:35
- Updated: 14 May 2012
From The Guardian . Ex News of the World editor & UK Prime Minister David Cameron's Spin Doctor Andy Coulson , who was investigated by Scottish police over perjury allegations , gives evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into phone hacking . Is this whole inquiry a stitch up from our friends at Common Purpose ?
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From The Guardian . Ex News of the World editor & UK Prime Minister David Cameron's Spin Doctor Andy Coulson , who was investigated by Scottish police over perjury allegations , gives evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into phone hacking . Is this whole inquiry a stitch up from our friends at Common Purpose ?
- published: 10 May 2012
- views: 2186
- author: TestTransmission1984
Andy Coulson Interviewed By Police Over Phone Hacking Claims - NOTW Phone Hacking
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- Duration: 2:52
- Updated: 14 Nov 2011
This video show how Downing Street communications chief Andy Coulson was interviewed by police over phone-hacking allegations. Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Phone Hacking' YouTube channel @ www.youtube.com For upto date news on the hacking scandal, follow me on Twitter @ twitter.com A Downing Street spokesman said: "Andy Coulson voluntarily attended a meeting with Metropolitan Police officers on Thursday morning at a solicitor's office in London. Mr Coulson - who first offered to meet the police two months ago - was interviewed as a witness and was not cautioned or arrested." Harriet Harman, deputy leader of the Labour Party, said: "The continued presence of Andy Coulson as director of communications at Number 10 when question marks hang over him casts doubt over David Cameron's judgement. "It is time he took this matter seriously." Saturday November 06, 2010
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This video show how Downing Street communications chief Andy Coulson was interviewed by police over phone-hacking allegations. Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Phone Hacking' YouTube channel @ www.youtube.com For upto date news on the hacking scandal, follow me on Twitter @ twitter.com A Downing Street spokesman said: "Andy Coulson voluntarily attended a meeting with Metropolitan Police officers on Thursday morning at a solicitor's office in London. Mr Coulson - who first offered to meet the police two months ago - was interviewed as a witness and was not cautioned or arrested." Harriet Harman, deputy leader of the Labour Party, said: "The continued presence of Andy Coulson as director of communications at Number 10 when question marks hang over him casts doubt over David Cameron's judgement. "It is time he took this matter seriously." Saturday November 06, 2010
- published: 05 Jul 2011
- views: 850
- author: NOTWPhoneHacking
George Osborne at Leveson Inquiry: I thought Andy Coulson was strong candidate for job
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- Duration: 3:39
- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
Chancellor George Osborne tells the Leveson Inquiry he asked Andy Coulson about phone hacking before he recommended him to become the Conservative Party's communications chief.
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Chancellor George Osborne tells the Leveson Inquiry he asked Andy Coulson about phone hacking before he recommended him to become the Conservative Party's communications chief.
- published: 11 Jun 2012
- views: 575
- author: telegraphtv
Andy Coulson's Arrest for Perjury - Have I Got News for You - Series 43 Episode 8 - BBC One
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- Duration: 2:07
- Updated: 31 Dec 2012
More about this programme: www.bbc.co.uk Alastair Campbell hosts, with Paul and Ian joined by Ross Noble and Nick Hewer.
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More about this programme: www.bbc.co.uk Alastair Campbell hosts, with Paul and Ian joined by Ross Noble and Nick Hewer.
- published: 06 Jun 2012
- views: 6118
- author: BBC
Andy Coulson Chaired Meetings Where Hacking Was Openly Discussed - NOTW Phone Hacking *NEW*
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- Duration: 2:46
- Updated: 14 Apr 2012
Andy Coulson Chaired Meetings Where Hacking Was Openly Discussed Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Phone Hacking' YouTube channel @ www.youtube.com For upto date news on the hacking scandal, follow me on Twitter @ twitter.com Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson is facing fresh questions over his role in the phone-hacking scandal after MPs released documents claiming the practice was "widely discussed" at the newspaper. Papers published by the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee suggest the issue frequently came up at the paper's editorial meetings until Mr Coulson banned any further mention of the subject. Despite resigning as the paper's editor in 2007, Mr Coulson has consistently maintained he had been unaware of the practice, claiming it was confined to one "rogue" reporter - former royal editor Clive Goodman. Labour MP Tom Watson described the latest claims as "devastating" and said they suggested previous evidence given by Mr Coulson to the committee was "at best misleading and probably deceptive". The disclosure is also potentially highly embarrassing for David Cameron who made Mr Coulson his director of communications after he quit the News of the World. The Prime Minister has said he would make a "profound apology" if it turned out Mr Coulson - who has already been questioned by police - had lied to him about his involvement when he gave him the job. Labour leader Ed Miliband said the latest evidence showed what a ...
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Andy Coulson Chaired Meetings Where Hacking Was Openly Discussed Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Phone Hacking' YouTube channel @ www.youtube.com For upto date news on the hacking scandal, follow me on Twitter @ twitter.com Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson is facing fresh questions over his role in the phone-hacking scandal after MPs released documents claiming the practice was "widely discussed" at the newspaper. Papers published by the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee suggest the issue frequently came up at the paper's editorial meetings until Mr Coulson banned any further mention of the subject. Despite resigning as the paper's editor in 2007, Mr Coulson has consistently maintained he had been unaware of the practice, claiming it was confined to one "rogue" reporter - former royal editor Clive Goodman. Labour MP Tom Watson described the latest claims as "devastating" and said they suggested previous evidence given by Mr Coulson to the committee was "at best misleading and probably deceptive". The disclosure is also potentially highly embarrassing for David Cameron who made Mr Coulson his director of communications after he quit the News of the World. The Prime Minister has said he would make a "profound apology" if it turned out Mr Coulson - who has already been questioned by police - had lied to him about his involvement when he gave him the job. Labour leader Ed Miliband said the latest evidence showed what a ...
- published: 16 Aug 2011
- views: 606
- author: NOTWPhoneHacking
Spin doctor Andy Coulson "didn't condone" phone tapping
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- Duration: 2:32
- Updated: 14 Sep 2012
Former News of the World editor and Tory spin doctor Andy Coulson has told MPs he "didn't condone hacking" into phones of public figures.. Follow us on twitter at twitter.com
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Former News of the World editor and Tory spin doctor Andy Coulson has told MPs he "didn't condone hacking" into phones of public figures.. Follow us on twitter at twitter.com
- published: 21 Jul 2009
- views: 3880
- author: itnnews
Question Time - Baroness Williams: Andy Coulson A Brilliant Liar [07.07.2011]
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- Duration: 1:52
- Updated: 22 Feb 2012
Question Time, the BBC's premier political debate programme came from Basingstoke on Thursday 7 July. Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Phone Hacking' YouTube channel @ www.youtube.com For upto date news on the hacking scandal, follow me on Twitter @ twitter.com David Dimbleby was joined by: • Employment Minister - Chris Grayling • Shadow foreign secretary - Douglas Alexander • Liberal Democrat peer Baroness - Shirley Williams. • Actor - Hugh Grant • Broadcaster and columnist - Jon Gaunt. In this video, Baroness Williams says andy coulson is a "brilliant liar." "His capacity to look someone in the eye & just say the opposite of the truth was simply phenomenal." Thanks to the BBC. Saturday 9th July 2011
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Question Time, the BBC's premier political debate programme came from Basingstoke on Thursday 7 July. Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Phone Hacking' YouTube channel @ www.youtube.com For upto date news on the hacking scandal, follow me on Twitter @ twitter.com David Dimbleby was joined by: • Employment Minister - Chris Grayling • Shadow foreign secretary - Douglas Alexander • Liberal Democrat peer Baroness - Shirley Williams. • Actor - Hugh Grant • Broadcaster and columnist - Jon Gaunt. In this video, Baroness Williams says andy coulson is a "brilliant liar." "His capacity to look someone in the eye & just say the opposite of the truth was simply phenomenal." Thanks to the BBC. Saturday 9th July 2011
- published: 09 Jul 2011
- views: 4214
- author: NOTWPhoneHacking
CCC09-01: Nadine Dorries & Andy Coulson are innocent!
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- Duration: 8:20
- Updated: 11 Dec 2010
Our historic first broadcast with your host, Tory Muppet. BE PART OF HISTORY! SUBSCRIBE NOW! Features (in running order): Andy Coulson, the lovely Nadine Dorries, the radiant Nadine Dorries, the sparkling Nadine Dorries, Donal Blaney and Phil Hendren.
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Our historic first broadcast with your host, Tory Muppet. BE PART OF HISTORY! SUBSCRIBE NOW! Features (in running order): Andy Coulson, the lovely Nadine Dorries, the radiant Nadine Dorries, the sparkling Nadine Dorries, Donal Blaney and Phil Hendren.
- published: 21 Sep 2009
- views: 1504
- author: conservativechange
Andy Coulson, Can't Beat A Bit of Bully
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- Updated: 21 Jul 2011
Andy Coulson defended by David Cameron
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Hugh Grant exposes hacking of Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and Paul McMullon
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- Duration: 4:22
- Updated: 23 Jan 2013
www.facebook.com Hugh Grant exposes hacking and the illegal practices of the News of the World run by Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and the Murdochs
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www.facebook.com Hugh Grant exposes hacking and the illegal practices of the News of the World run by Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and the Murdochs
- published: 08 Jul 2011
- views: 14385
- author: sarahtriumph
![Cameron Defends his decision to hire Andy Coulson in the House of Commons 13/07/2011 [HD]](http://web.archive.org./web/20130307180258im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/OcHwkhBszY8/default.jpg "Cameron Defends his decision to hire Andy Coulson in the House of Commons 13/07/2011 [HD]")
Cameron Defends his decision to hire Andy Coulson in the House of Commons 13/07/2011 [HD]
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- Duration: 2:06
- Updated: 05 Jan 2013
A clip from Prime Minister's Questions on the 13th July 2011.
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A clip from Prime Minister's Questions on the 13th July 2011.
- published: 13 Jul 2011
- views: 1088
- author: aBitterLemon
Murdoch refuses to answer question on Andy Coulson News of the World phone-hacking scandal
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- Duration: 5:55
- Updated: 09 Jan 2013
News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch refuses to answer question on Andy Coulson News of the World phone-hacking scandal Guardian's Article April 25, 2010 - Andy Coulson Phone Bug Claim www.guardian.co.uk Update: Meanwhile today [Setember 6 2010] Guardian's Nick Davies and other real Journalists are dissecting NOTW Hacking Scandal after last weeks great investigative reportage published on the New York Times www.nytimes.com On the side: News of the World belongs to News Corporation, owned by Rupert Murdoch, my favourite media tyrant - Andy Coulson was the News Editor at the time when the NOTW hacks hacked [pun intended] into mobile voice mails, emails, home voice mail recorders, etc.. Andy Coulson one degree of separation to the McCann affair: McCann family spokesman Clarence Mitchell joins CCHQ as head of media monitoring for the election www.prweek.com PR Week has the story: "The Conservative Party has signed up Clarence Mitchell, best-known as spokesman for Madeleine McCann's parents, as the head of media monitoring for its general election campaign, PRWeek can exclusively reveal. "Mitchell joins the Tory comms operation today, reporting directly to director of communications Andy Coulson. Mitchell, who was the director of the Government's media monitoring unit for two years (2005-2007) will take a back room role, monitoring the progress of the Tories' campaign in the media." Mitchell, a former BBC News presenter, is a member of the Conservative Party in north London and also ...
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News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch refuses to answer question on Andy Coulson News of the World phone-hacking scandal Guardian's Article April 25, 2010 - Andy Coulson Phone Bug Claim www.guardian.co.uk Update: Meanwhile today [Setember 6 2010] Guardian's Nick Davies and other real Journalists are dissecting NOTW Hacking Scandal after last weeks great investigative reportage published on the New York Times www.nytimes.com On the side: News of the World belongs to News Corporation, owned by Rupert Murdoch, my favourite media tyrant - Andy Coulson was the News Editor at the time when the NOTW hacks hacked [pun intended] into mobile voice mails, emails, home voice mail recorders, etc.. Andy Coulson one degree of separation to the McCann affair: McCann family spokesman Clarence Mitchell joins CCHQ as head of media monitoring for the election www.prweek.com PR Week has the story: "The Conservative Party has signed up Clarence Mitchell, best-known as spokesman for Madeleine McCann's parents, as the head of media monitoring for its general election campaign, PRWeek can exclusively reveal. "Mitchell joins the Tory comms operation today, reporting directly to director of communications Andy Coulson. Mitchell, who was the director of the Government's media monitoring unit for two years (2005-2007) will take a back room role, monitoring the progress of the Tories' campaign in the media." Mitchell, a former BBC News presenter, is a member of the Conservative Party in north London and also ...
- published: 23 Aug 2010
- views: 27154
- author: xklamation
Andy Coulson 'Condoned Police Payoffs' for Stories - NOTW Phone Hacking *HOT*
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- Duration: 2:52
- Updated: 11 Jul 2011
News international has uncovered e-mails that indicate payments were made to the police by the News of the World, during the editorship from 2003 to 2007 of Andy Coulson. Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Phone Hacking' YouTube channel @ www.youtube.com For upto date news on the hacking scandal, follow me on Twitter @ twitter.com The e-mails, which appear to show that Mr Coulson authorised the payments, have been passed to the police. The disclosure is a significant development in the extraordinary story of how the News of the World and other newspapers obtained stories in the frenzied climate of a few years ago. It has an important political dimension, in that Mr Coulson went on to work for David Cameron as director of communications at 10 Downing Street. Mr Coulson resigned from that post in January. It also shows that the police investigation into alleged illicit techniques used by the News of the World to obtain stories goes much wider than an examination of the hacking of mobile phones. News International statenment: "As a result of enquiries it is correct to state that new information has recently been provided to the police. As News International and News Group Newspapers has reiterated many times, full and continuing cooperation has been provided to the police since the current investigation started in January 2011. Well understood arrangements are in place to ensure that any material of importance to which they are entitled is provided ...
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News international has uncovered e-mails that indicate payments were made to the police by the News of the World, during the editorship from 2003 to 2007 of Andy Coulson. Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Phone Hacking' YouTube channel @ www.youtube.com For upto date news on the hacking scandal, follow me on Twitter @ twitter.com The e-mails, which appear to show that Mr Coulson authorised the payments, have been passed to the police. The disclosure is a significant development in the extraordinary story of how the News of the World and other newspapers obtained stories in the frenzied climate of a few years ago. It has an important political dimension, in that Mr Coulson went on to work for David Cameron as director of communications at 10 Downing Street. Mr Coulson resigned from that post in January. It also shows that the police investigation into alleged illicit techniques used by the News of the World to obtain stories goes much wider than an examination of the hacking of mobile phones. News International statenment: "As a result of enquiries it is correct to state that new information has recently been provided to the police. As News International and News Group Newspapers has reiterated many times, full and continuing cooperation has been provided to the police since the current investigation started in January 2011. Well understood arrangements are in place to ensure that any material of importance to which they are entitled is provided ...
- published: 06 Jul 2011
- views: 379
- author: NOTWPhoneHacking
George Osborne on Andy Coulson at The Leveson Inquiry
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- Duration: 3:32
- Updated: 25 Jun 2012
Osborne says he thought Andy Coulson was a strong candidate & asked him about phone hacking before he put him forward for the UK Government's Communications Chief . The Fair Use Act is in section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. This act stipulates that a piece of music or other copyright protected work can be used and even reproduced without limits for the purpose of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship or research without the party using the music work for these purposes suffering legal consequences, and even if the work does not fall within the category of public domain music. The following features distinguish the Fair Use Act in relationship to a particular work of music or other creative work: 1. The person using the work of music must be for non-profit or educational purposes; 2. The copyrighted work must be suitable for educational use, criticism, research or other non-revenue-generating uses; 3. The work must not be used in its entirety or presented in its entirety without adding any commentary or supplemental educational material; 4. The use of the music work must not alter the value or accessibility of the work to others purchasing or paying royalty fees for commercial use of the work.
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Osborne says he thought Andy Coulson was a strong candidate & asked him about phone hacking before he put him forward for the UK Government's Communications Chief . The Fair Use Act is in section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. This act stipulates that a piece of music or other copyright protected work can be used and even reproduced without limits for the purpose of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship or research without the party using the music work for these purposes suffering legal consequences, and even if the work does not fall within the category of public domain music. The following features distinguish the Fair Use Act in relationship to a particular work of music or other creative work: 1. The person using the work of music must be for non-profit or educational purposes; 2. The copyrighted work must be suitable for educational use, criticism, research or other non-revenue-generating uses; 3. The work must not be used in its entirety or presented in its entirety without adding any commentary or supplemental educational material; 4. The use of the music work must not alter the value or accessibility of the work to others purchasing or paying royalty fees for commercial use of the work.
- published: 11 Jun 2012
- views: 390
- author: TestTransmission1984
![PROFILES: Andy Coulson [Part1] - NOTW Phone Hacking](http://web.archive.org./web/20130307180258im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/exncCWBgdJk/default.jpg "PROFILES: Andy Coulson [Part1] - NOTW Phone Hacking")
PROFILES: Andy Coulson [Part1] - NOTW Phone Hacking
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- Duration: 14:03
- Updated: 14 Nov 2011
PROFILE: Andy Coulson [Part1] This edition of Profile was broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday 11th July 2009. 19.00pm. Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Phone Hacking' YouTube channel @ www.youtube.com For upto date news on the hacking scandal, follow me on Twitter @ twitter.com 'Profile' is an insight into the character of an influential figure making news headlines. James Silver profiles Andy Coulson, who has resigned as David Cameron's Director of Communications, blaming coverage of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal. It is said a spin doctor should never become the story, but David Cameron's Communications Director, Andy Coulson, has been catapulted into the spotlight after News of the World staff were accused of paying private investigators to intercept the phone messages of politicians and celebrities while he was the editor. James Silver examines the life of a man whose job is to create headlines rather than be the subject of them. Timeline: • 1986 - Andy Coulson starts work at Basildon Evening Echo • 1988 - He joins The Sun • 1994 - He has a brief stint at the Daily Mail before returning to News International • 2003 - He becomes editor of the NoW • Jan 2007 - He resigns on same day as Clive Goodman is convicted • Jul 2007 - He becomes the Conservative Party's director of communications • May 2010 - Following the general election he takes up a similar job in Downing Street • Jan 2011 - He resigns • July 2011 - E-mails emerge ...
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PROFILE: Andy Coulson [Part1] This edition of Profile was broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday 11th July 2009. 19.00pm. Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Phone Hacking' YouTube channel @ www.youtube.com For upto date news on the hacking scandal, follow me on Twitter @ twitter.com 'Profile' is an insight into the character of an influential figure making news headlines. James Silver profiles Andy Coulson, who has resigned as David Cameron's Director of Communications, blaming coverage of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal. It is said a spin doctor should never become the story, but David Cameron's Communications Director, Andy Coulson, has been catapulted into the spotlight after News of the World staff were accused of paying private investigators to intercept the phone messages of politicians and celebrities while he was the editor. James Silver examines the life of a man whose job is to create headlines rather than be the subject of them. Timeline: • 1986 - Andy Coulson starts work at Basildon Evening Echo • 1988 - He joins The Sun • 1994 - He has a brief stint at the Daily Mail before returning to News International • 2003 - He becomes editor of the NoW • Jan 2007 - He resigns on same day as Clive Goodman is convicted • Jul 2007 - He becomes the Conservative Party's director of communications • May 2010 - Following the general election he takes up a similar job in Downing Street • Jan 2011 - He resigns • July 2011 - E-mails emerge ...
- published: 12 Jul 2011
- views: 406
- author: NOTWPhoneHacking
Andy Coulson (Phone Hacker) his Phone Number. I fear he would change his number by now ?
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- Duration: 0:50
- Updated: 04 Jan 2013
THE REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED . Episode 3
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Andy Coulson To Be Arrested - NOTW Phone Hacking *NEW*
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- Duration: 2:35
- Updated: 10 Jul 2011
This video tells of how David Camerons ex-right hand man will be arrested on Friday 8th July. Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Phone Hacking' YouTube channel @ www.youtube.com For upto date news on the hacking scandal, follow me on Twitter @ twitter.com Mr Coulson has been told to attend a central London police station for questioning over claims he knew about phone hacking, the paper claims. Reports that David Cameron's former aide was facing arrest came after the Sunday tabloid was sacrificed last night. Scotland Yard was unable to confirm reports that Mr Coulson was due to meet officers. He resigned in January as Downing Street communications chief, saying the drip-drip of claims about illegal eavesdropping under his editorship was making his job impossible. A second former senior journalist at the newspaper will also be arrested in the next few days, the Guardian said. The axe fell on the Sunday paper after a series of increasingly damaging allegations left its reputation in tatters. Friday 8 July 2011
http://wn.com/Andy_Coulson_To_Be_Arrested_NOTW_Phone_Hacking_*NEW*
This video tells of how David Camerons ex-right hand man will be arrested on Friday 8th July. Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Phone Hacking' YouTube channel @ www.youtube.com For upto date news on the hacking scandal, follow me on Twitter @ twitter.com Mr Coulson has been told to attend a central London police station for questioning over claims he knew about phone hacking, the paper claims. Reports that David Cameron's former aide was facing arrest came after the Sunday tabloid was sacrificed last night. Scotland Yard was unable to confirm reports that Mr Coulson was due to meet officers. He resigned in January as Downing Street communications chief, saying the drip-drip of claims about illegal eavesdropping under his editorship was making his job impossible. A second former senior journalist at the newspaper will also be arrested in the next few days, the Guardian said. The axe fell on the Sunday paper after a series of increasingly damaging allegations left its reputation in tatters. Friday 8 July 2011
- published: 08 Jul 2011
- views: 512
- author: NOTWPhoneHacking
ANDY COULSON ARRESTED ( TORY TOFF CAMERON'S EX-COMMUNICATIONS LACKEY)
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- Duration: 9:08
- Updated: 08 Jul 2011
www.intmensorg.info
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Tom Watson Tells Cameron 'I Warned You About Andy Coulson' - NOTW Phone Hacking *NEW*
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- Duration: 1:07
- Updated: 25 Oct 2012
Tom Watson Tells Cameron: 'I Warned You About andy Coulson' Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Phone Hacking' YouTube channel @ www.youtube.com For upto date news on the hacking scandal, follow me on Twitter @ twitter.com Tom Watson MP told David Cameron that he wrote him a letter in October 2010 warning him about his employment of Andy Coulson, the former editor of the News of the World, as his media adviser. The Labour MP for West Bromwich East made the point during a question in the emergency debate in the Commons on the phone-hacking controversy. The Commons was sitting for an extra day after the prime minister delayed MPs' summer recess so the fallout of the crisis could be discussed. Thanks to the BBC Thursday 21st July 2011
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Tom Watson Tells Cameron: 'I Warned You About andy Coulson' Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Phone Hacking' YouTube channel @ www.youtube.com For upto date news on the hacking scandal, follow me on Twitter @ twitter.com Tom Watson MP told David Cameron that he wrote him a letter in October 2010 warning him about his employment of Andy Coulson, the former editor of the News of the World, as his media adviser. The Labour MP for West Bromwich East made the point during a question in the emergency debate in the Commons on the phone-hacking controversy. The Commons was sitting for an extra day after the prime minister delayed MPs' summer recess so the fallout of the crisis could be discussed. Thanks to the BBC Thursday 21st July 2011
- published: 21 Jul 2011
- views: 1437
- author: NOTWPhoneHacking
DAVID CAMERON ANDY COULSON BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH a poem
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- Duration: 2:14
- Updated: 06 Oct 2012
DAVID CAMERON ANDY COULSON BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAHThe Artist Taxi Driver Mark McGowan
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DAVID CAMERON ANDY COULSON BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAHThe Artist Taxi Driver Mark McGowan
- published: 20 Jul 2011
- views: 459
- author: chunkymark
David Cameron: Andy Coulson's second chance didn't work out
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- Duration: 4:11
- Updated: 29 Mar 2012
David Cameron talks to reporters about developments in the phone hacking scandal.
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David Cameron talks to reporters about developments in the phone hacking scandal.
- published: 08 Jul 2011
- views: 990
- author: Channel4News
Andy Coulson's Resignation - Alan Rusbridger View - NOTW Phone Hacking
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:23
- Updated: 03 May 2012
Alan Rusbridger speaks on Andy Coulson's resignation. Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Phone Hacking' YouTube channel @ www.youtube.com For upto date news on the hacking scandal, follow me on Twitter @ twitter.com The Guardian's editor Alan Rusbridger gives his reaction to former News of the World editor Andy Coulson's resignation as David Cameron's director of communications Thanks to the Guardian. Friday 21 January 2011
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Alan Rusbridger speaks on Andy Coulson's resignation. Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Phone Hacking' YouTube channel @ www.youtube.com For upto date news on the hacking scandal, follow me on Twitter @ twitter.com The Guardian's editor Alan Rusbridger gives his reaction to former News of the World editor Andy Coulson's resignation as David Cameron's director of communications Thanks to the Guardian. Friday 21 January 2011
- published: 05 Jul 2011
- views: 436
- author: NOTWPhoneHacking
September 18, 2007: Andrew Coulson
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- Duration: 5:42
- Updated: 08 Feb 2010
The No Child Left Behind Act is up for reauthorization, and, supporters' rhetoric to the contrary, it has failed to live up to its promises. Andrew J. Coulson, the director of Cato's Center for Educational Freedom, discusses the policy implications of NCLB's massive imposition on local and state education systems.
http://wn.com/September_18,_2007_Andrew_Coulson
The No Child Left Behind Act is up for reauthorization, and, supporters' rhetoric to the contrary, it has failed to live up to its promises. Andrew J. Coulson, the director of Cato's Center for Educational Freedom, discusses the policy implications of NCLB's massive imposition on local and state education systems.
- published: 18 Nov 2008
- views: 157
- author: catoinstitutevideo
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Andy Coulson evidence to the Leveson inquiry into NOTW phone hacking
From The Guardian . Ex News of the World editor & UK Prime Minister David Cameron's Spin D...
published: 10 May 2012
author: TestTransmission1984
Andy Coulson evidence to the Leveson inquiry into NOTW phone hacking
From The Guardian . Ex News of the World editor & UK Prime Minister David Cameron's Spin Doctor Andy Coulson , who was investigated by Scottish police over perjury allegations , gives evidence to the Leveson Inquiry into phone hacking . Is this whole inquiry a stitch up from our friends at Common Purpose ?
- published: 10 May 2012
- views: 2186
- author: TestTransmission1984
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Andy Coulson Interviewed By Police Over Phone Hacking Claims - NOTW Phone Hacking
This video show how Downing Street communications chief Andy Coulson was interviewed by po...
published: 05 Jul 2011
author: NOTWPhoneHacking
Andy Coulson Interviewed By Police Over Phone Hacking Claims - NOTW Phone Hacking
This video show how Downing Street communications chief Andy Coulson was interviewed by police over phone-hacking allegations. Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Phone Hacking' YouTube channel @ www.youtube.com For upto date news on the hacking scandal, follow me on Twitter @ twitter.com A Downing Street spokesman said: "Andy Coulson voluntarily attended a meeting with Metropolitan Police officers on Thursday morning at a solicitor's office in London. Mr Coulson - who first offered to meet the police two months ago - was interviewed as a witness and was not cautioned or arrested." Harriet Harman, deputy leader of the Labour Party, said: "The continued presence of Andy Coulson as director of communications at Number 10 when question marks hang over him casts doubt over David Cameron's judgement. "It is time he took this matter seriously." Saturday November 06, 2010
- published: 05 Jul 2011
- views: 850
- author: NOTWPhoneHacking
3:39
George Osborne at Leveson Inquiry: I thought Andy Coulson was strong candidate for job
Chancellor George Osborne tells the Leveson Inquiry he asked Andy Coulson about phone hack...
published: 11 Jun 2012
author: telegraphtv
George Osborne at Leveson Inquiry: I thought Andy Coulson was strong candidate for job
Chancellor George Osborne tells the Leveson Inquiry he asked Andy Coulson about phone hacking before he recommended him to become the Conservative Party's communications chief.
- published: 11 Jun 2012
- views: 575
- author: telegraphtv
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Andy Coulson's Arrest for Perjury - Have I Got News for You - Series 43 Episode 8 - BBC One
More about this programme: www.bbc.co.uk Alastair Campbell hosts, with Paul and Ian joined...
published: 06 Jun 2012
author: BBC
Andy Coulson's Arrest for Perjury - Have I Got News for You - Series 43 Episode 8 - BBC One
More about this programme: www.bbc.co.uk Alastair Campbell hosts, with Paul and Ian joined by Ross Noble and Nick Hewer.
- published: 06 Jun 2012
- views: 6118
- author: BBC
2:46
Andy Coulson Chaired Meetings Where Hacking Was Openly Discussed - NOTW Phone Hacking *NEW*
Andy Coulson Chaired Meetings Where Hacking Was Openly Discussed Click the link below to S...
published: 16 Aug 2011
author: NOTWPhoneHacking
Andy Coulson Chaired Meetings Where Hacking Was Openly Discussed - NOTW Phone Hacking *NEW*
Andy Coulson Chaired Meetings Where Hacking Was Openly Discussed Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Phone Hacking' YouTube channel @ www.youtube.com For upto date news on the hacking scandal, follow me on Twitter @ twitter.com Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson is facing fresh questions over his role in the phone-hacking scandal after MPs released documents claiming the practice was "widely discussed" at the newspaper. Papers published by the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee suggest the issue frequently came up at the paper's editorial meetings until Mr Coulson banned any further mention of the subject. Despite resigning as the paper's editor in 2007, Mr Coulson has consistently maintained he had been unaware of the practice, claiming it was confined to one "rogue" reporter - former royal editor Clive Goodman. Labour MP Tom Watson described the latest claims as "devastating" and said they suggested previous evidence given by Mr Coulson to the committee was "at best misleading and probably deceptive". The disclosure is also potentially highly embarrassing for David Cameron who made Mr Coulson his director of communications after he quit the News of the World. The Prime Minister has said he would make a "profound apology" if it turned out Mr Coulson - who has already been questioned by police - had lied to him about his involvement when he gave him the job. Labour leader Ed Miliband said the latest evidence showed what a ...
- published: 16 Aug 2011
- views: 606
- author: NOTWPhoneHacking
2:32
Spin doctor Andy Coulson "didn't condone" phone tapping
Former News of the World editor and Tory spin doctor Andy Coulson has told MPs he "didn't ...
published: 21 Jul 2009
author: itnnews
Spin doctor Andy Coulson "didn't condone" phone tapping
Former News of the World editor and Tory spin doctor Andy Coulson has told MPs he "didn't condone hacking" into phones of public figures.. Follow us on twitter at twitter.com
- published: 21 Jul 2009
- views: 3880
- author: itnnews
1:52
Question Time - Baroness Williams: Andy Coulson A Brilliant Liar [07.07.2011]
Question Time, the BBC's premier political debate programme came from Basingstoke on Thurs...
published: 09 Jul 2011
author: NOTWPhoneHacking
Question Time - Baroness Williams: Andy Coulson A Brilliant Liar [07.07.2011]
Question Time, the BBC's premier political debate programme came from Basingstoke on Thursday 7 July. Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Phone Hacking' YouTube channel @ www.youtube.com For upto date news on the hacking scandal, follow me on Twitter @ twitter.com David Dimbleby was joined by: • Employment Minister - Chris Grayling • Shadow foreign secretary - Douglas Alexander • Liberal Democrat peer Baroness - Shirley Williams. • Actor - Hugh Grant • Broadcaster and columnist - Jon Gaunt. In this video, Baroness Williams says andy coulson is a "brilliant liar." "His capacity to look someone in the eye & just say the opposite of the truth was simply phenomenal." Thanks to the BBC. Saturday 9th July 2011
- published: 09 Jul 2011
- views: 4214
- author: NOTWPhoneHacking
8:20
CCC09-01: Nadine Dorries & Andy Coulson are innocent!
Our historic first broadcast with your host, Tory Muppet. BE PART OF HISTORY! SUBSCRIBE NO...
published: 21 Sep 2009
author: conservativechange
CCC09-01: Nadine Dorries & Andy Coulson are innocent!
Our historic first broadcast with your host, Tory Muppet. BE PART OF HISTORY! SUBSCRIBE NOW! Features (in running order): Andy Coulson, the lovely Nadine Dorries, the radiant Nadine Dorries, the sparkling Nadine Dorries, Donal Blaney and Phil Hendren.
- published: 21 Sep 2009
- views: 1504
- author: conservativechange
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Hugh Grant exposes hacking of Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and Paul McMullon
www.facebook.com Hugh Grant exposes hacking and the illegal practices of the News of the W...
published: 08 Jul 2011
author: sarahtriumph
Hugh Grant exposes hacking of Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and Paul McMullon
www.facebook.com Hugh Grant exposes hacking and the illegal practices of the News of the World run by Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and the Murdochs
- published: 08 Jul 2011
- views: 14385
- author: sarahtriumph
2:06
Cameron Defends his decision to hire Andy Coulson in the House of Commons 13/07/2011 [HD]
A clip from Prime Minister's Questions on the 13th July 2011....
published: 13 Jul 2011
author: aBitterLemon
Cameron Defends his decision to hire Andy Coulson in the House of Commons 13/07/2011 [HD]
A clip from Prime Minister's Questions on the 13th July 2011.
- published: 13 Jul 2011
- views: 1088
- author: aBitterLemon
5:55
Murdoch refuses to answer question on Andy Coulson News of the World phone-hacking scandal
News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch refuses to answer question on Andy Coulson News of the World ...
published: 23 Aug 2010
author: xklamation
Murdoch refuses to answer question on Andy Coulson News of the World phone-hacking scandal
News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch refuses to answer question on Andy Coulson News of the World phone-hacking scandal Guardian's Article April 25, 2010 - Andy Coulson Phone Bug Claim www.guardian.co.uk Update: Meanwhile today [Setember 6 2010] Guardian's Nick Davies and other real Journalists are dissecting NOTW Hacking Scandal after last weeks great investigative reportage published on the New York Times www.nytimes.com On the side: News of the World belongs to News Corporation, owned by Rupert Murdoch, my favourite media tyrant - Andy Coulson was the News Editor at the time when the NOTW hacks hacked [pun intended] into mobile voice mails, emails, home voice mail recorders, etc.. Andy Coulson one degree of separation to the McCann affair: McCann family spokesman Clarence Mitchell joins CCHQ as head of media monitoring for the election www.prweek.com PR Week has the story: "The Conservative Party has signed up Clarence Mitchell, best-known as spokesman for Madeleine McCann's parents, as the head of media monitoring for its general election campaign, PRWeek can exclusively reveal. "Mitchell joins the Tory comms operation today, reporting directly to director of communications Andy Coulson. Mitchell, who was the director of the Government's media monitoring unit for two years (2005-2007) will take a back room role, monitoring the progress of the Tories' campaign in the media." Mitchell, a former BBC News presenter, is a member of the Conservative Party in north London and also ...
- published: 23 Aug 2010
- views: 27154
- author: xklamation
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Andy Coulson 'Condoned Police Payoffs' for Stories - NOTW Phone Hacking *HOT*
News international has uncovered e-mails that indicate payments were made to the police by...
published: 06 Jul 2011
author: NOTWPhoneHacking
Andy Coulson 'Condoned Police Payoffs' for Stories - NOTW Phone Hacking *HOT*
News international has uncovered e-mails that indicate payments were made to the police by the News of the World, during the editorship from 2003 to 2007 of Andy Coulson. Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Phone Hacking' YouTube channel @ www.youtube.com For upto date news on the hacking scandal, follow me on Twitter @ twitter.com The e-mails, which appear to show that Mr Coulson authorised the payments, have been passed to the police. The disclosure is a significant development in the extraordinary story of how the News of the World and other newspapers obtained stories in the frenzied climate of a few years ago. It has an important political dimension, in that Mr Coulson went on to work for David Cameron as director of communications at 10 Downing Street. Mr Coulson resigned from that post in January. It also shows that the police investigation into alleged illicit techniques used by the News of the World to obtain stories goes much wider than an examination of the hacking of mobile phones. News International statenment: "As a result of enquiries it is correct to state that new information has recently been provided to the police. As News International and News Group Newspapers has reiterated many times, full and continuing cooperation has been provided to the police since the current investigation started in January 2011. Well understood arrangements are in place to ensure that any material of importance to which they are entitled is provided ...
- published: 06 Jul 2011
- views: 379
- author: NOTWPhoneHacking
3:32
George Osborne on Andy Coulson at The Leveson Inquiry
Osborne says he thought Andy Coulson was a strong candidate & asked him about phone hackin...
published: 11 Jun 2012
author: TestTransmission1984
George Osborne on Andy Coulson at The Leveson Inquiry
Osborne says he thought Andy Coulson was a strong candidate & asked him about phone hacking before he put him forward for the UK Government's Communications Chief . The Fair Use Act is in section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. This act stipulates that a piece of music or other copyright protected work can be used and even reproduced without limits for the purpose of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship or research without the party using the music work for these purposes suffering legal consequences, and even if the work does not fall within the category of public domain music. The following features distinguish the Fair Use Act in relationship to a particular work of music or other creative work: 1. The person using the work of music must be for non-profit or educational purposes; 2. The copyrighted work must be suitable for educational use, criticism, research or other non-revenue-generating uses; 3. The work must not be used in its entirety or presented in its entirety without adding any commentary or supplemental educational material; 4. The use of the music work must not alter the value or accessibility of the work to others purchasing or paying royalty fees for commercial use of the work.
- published: 11 Jun 2012
- views: 390
- author: TestTransmission1984
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"Cold Hard World" Official Music Video (HD)
Andy Carpenter
"COLD HARD WORLD"
Starring Andy Carpenter and Kether Donohue
Directed, Shot...
published: 12 Jun 2012
author: Nick Gaglia
"Cold Hard World" Official Music Video (HD)
Andy Carpenter
"COLD HARD WORLD"
Starring Andy Carpenter and Kether Donohue
Directed, Shot, & Edited by Nick Gaglia and Taylor Miller
Shot on 35mm with the Lomography Lomokino
www.nickgaglia.com
Special Thanks:
Jon St. James
Ki Coulson
Jonathan Heap
Bob Schull
Tom Weir
Adam Barnick
John Presnell
Lomography
Historic Society of El Reno, OK
The People of Yukon, OK
City of San Pedro, CA
Electric Gold
© 2012
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'Love Hound' - Trailer
Lucy is not getting the attention she craves from her boyfriend Dan but after an evening o...
published: 14 May 2010
author: Lawrence Page
'Love Hound' - Trailer
Lucy is not getting the attention she craves from her boyfriend Dan but after an evening out at an animal hypnotist show, she becomes besotted with their dog Monty. Does this spell disaster for Lucy’s dignity or can Monty put the puppy love back into their relationship?
'Love Hound' which I wrote and directed was selected for the 2009 Rushes Soho Shorts Festival and the 2010 London Short Film Festival.
CAST: LUCY - Fiona Ryan (The Tudors) / DAN - Kit Roxburgh / JILL - Tilly Brook / HYPNOTIST - Himanshu Ojha / PASSING GENTLEMAN - Julian Glover (Harry Potter: Chamber of Secrets, James Bond: For Your Eyes Only, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back) / MONTY THE DOG - Otty
CREW: WRITER & DIRECTOR - Lawrence Page / PRODUCER - Jay Taylor / EXECTUTIVE PRODUCERS - John Jencks & Alexa Seligman / DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY - Tom Wright / EDITOR - Phil Eldridge / CHIEF MAKE UP & HAIR ARTIST - Aileen Seaton / ART DIRECTOR - Celine Coulson / COSTUME DESIGNER - Yasemin Kascioglu / SOUND MIXER - Adam Toy / 1st ASSISTANT DIRECTOR - Gayle Lisa Dickie / KEY GRIP - Andy Edridge / FOCUS PULLER - Rafael Hale / ANIMAL WRANGLERS - Charlotte Wilde and Sue Ottmann / FLOOR RUNNER - Chris Ryan / PRODUCTION RUNNER - Sam Abrahams / LIGHTING AND CAMERA ASSISTANT - Daniel Montanarini /
THE CLUB (post production)
MANAGING DIRECTOR - Kabir Malik / PRODUCER - Roxanne Nazrudeen / COLOURIST - Martin Waller / AUDIO - Jamie Thomas
WITH THANKS TO: Jody Mycroft / St Francis de Sales / Alan at Adelphi Graphics / Paul Karbiner at Arri Media / Samuel at Decode / Emma McGovern at Battersea Arts Centre / John Adderley MBKS / Daniel Konrad Cooper / Ben, Freya, Lila, Raffi, Frothy & Daisy Taylor / Daisy Gilli and all at LFA and Club Panico
2009, HD, 8 minutes.
© Electric Shadow Company (www.electricshadowcompany.com)
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The NoW did it - so matm asks, who would you phone hack?
Andy Coulson, Prime Minister David Cameron's Press Secretary resigned on Friday January 21...
published: 21 Jan 2011
author: matm
The NoW did it - so matm asks, who would you phone hack?
Andy Coulson, Prime Minister David Cameron's Press Secretary resigned on Friday January 21 2010 over claims about journalists phone hacking to listen in on celebrities and politicians while he was editor of the News of the World. So matm, a marketing company in Jackfield, near Telford, Shropshire, went out to ask the public: "Whose phone would you want to hack into and why?"
5:47
Sky News: Jeff Randall Show
Claire Enders is invited to Jeff Randall Live to discuss evidence and revelations from And...
published: 11 May 2012
author: Enders Analysis
Sky News: Jeff Randall Show
Claire Enders is invited to Jeff Randall Live to discuss evidence and revelations from Andy Coulson's statement at the Leveson Inquiry including issues pertaining to the BSkyB bid, his appointment as Communications Director for David Cameron and the relationship between the government and the media
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PROFILES: Andy Coulson [Part1] - NOTW Phone Hacking
PROFILE: Andy Coulson [Part1] This edition of Profile was broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday...
published: 12 Jul 2011
author: NOTWPhoneHacking
PROFILES: Andy Coulson [Part1] - NOTW Phone Hacking
PROFILE: Andy Coulson [Part1] This edition of Profile was broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday 11th July 2009. 19.00pm. Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Phone Hacking' YouTube channel @ www.youtube.com For upto date news on the hacking scandal, follow me on Twitter @ twitter.com 'Profile' is an insight into the character of an influential figure making news headlines. James Silver profiles Andy Coulson, who has resigned as David Cameron's Director of Communications, blaming coverage of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal. It is said a spin doctor should never become the story, but David Cameron's Communications Director, Andy Coulson, has been catapulted into the spotlight after News of the World staff were accused of paying private investigators to intercept the phone messages of politicians and celebrities while he was the editor. James Silver examines the life of a man whose job is to create headlines rather than be the subject of them. Timeline: • 1986 - Andy Coulson starts work at Basildon Evening Echo • 1988 - He joins The Sun • 1994 - He has a brief stint at the Daily Mail before returning to News International • 2003 - He becomes editor of the NoW • Jan 2007 - He resigns on same day as Clive Goodman is convicted • Jul 2007 - He becomes the Conservative Party's director of communications • May 2010 - Following the general election he takes up a similar job in Downing Street • Jan 2011 - He resigns • July 2011 - E-mails emerge ...
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Andy Coulson (Phone Hacker) his Phone Number. I fear he would change his number by now ?
THE REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED . Episode 3...
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Andy Coulson (Phone Hacker) his Phone Number. I fear he would change his number by now ?
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Andy Coulson To Be Arrested - NOTW Phone Hacking *NEW*
This video tells of how David Camerons ex-right hand man will be arrested on Friday 8th Ju...
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Andy Coulson To Be Arrested - NOTW Phone Hacking *NEW*
This video tells of how David Camerons ex-right hand man will be arrested on Friday 8th July. Click the link below to SUBSCRIBE to the 'News of the World Phone Hacking' YouTube channel @ www.youtube.com For upto date news on the hacking scandal, follow me on Twitter @ twitter.com Mr Coulson has been told to attend a central London police station for questioning over claims he knew about phone hacking, the paper claims. Reports that David Cameron's former aide was facing arrest came after the Sunday tabloid was sacrificed last night. Scotland Yard was unable to confirm reports that Mr Coulson was due to meet officers. He resigned in January as Downing Street communications chief, saying the drip-drip of claims about illegal eavesdropping under his editorship was making his job impossible. A second former senior journalist at the newspaper will also be arrested in the next few days, the Guardian said. The axe fell on the Sunday paper after a series of increasingly damaging allegations left its reputation in tatters. Friday 8 July 2011
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ANDY COULSON ARRESTED ( TORY TOFF CAMERON'S EX-COMMUNICATIONS LACKEY)
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ANDY COULSON ARRESTED ( TORY TOFF CAMERON'S EX-COMMUNICATIONS LACKEY)
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05 Mar 2013
Manila. Members of a major Philippine Muslim rebel force who were meant to have disarmed in the 1990s as part of a peace pact are involved in deadly battles in Malaysia, the group’s leader said on Tuesday. Nur Misuari, who founded the Moro National Liberation Front in the late 1960s, confirmed “freedom fighters” from his group were part of the militia sent by a self-proclaimed sultan to claim the Malaysian state of Sabah....(size: 2.6Kb)
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North Korea has threatened to cancel the 1953 ceasefire that ended the Korean War, citing a US-led push for punishing UN sanctions over its recent nuclear test and ongoing US-South Korean joint military drills. The threat came on Tuesday as the United States, with Chinese backing, introduced a draft UN resolution to punish North Korea for its nuclear test on February 12 ... 415 Source.. Agencies. Share. Send Feedback ... China ... News ... ....(size: 7.2Kb)
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07 Mar 2013
The conflict has wreaked political havoc for both Malaysia and the neighboring Philippines ... Ismail said at least 52 Filipinos have now been killed in the past week since hostilities in the Sabah security crisis escalated ... World news....(size: 1.3Kb)
Digital Spy
22 Feb 2013
At the time, the CPS concluded that eight suspects should face charges, including two former editors of the now defunct Sunday tabloid, Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson ... Coulson, Brooks and six other former News of the World employees ... > Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson to face trial in September 2013. > Andy Coulson to face Crown Court in September....(size: 9.6Kb)
Belfast Telegraph
22 Feb 2013
The former deputy editor of the News of the World has been told he will face no action over phone-hacking allegations ... He said on Twitter ... She said ... Of those, eight are facing charges over alleged phone hacking - ex-News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks, former spin doctor Andy Coulson, private detective Glenn Mulcaire and five other former NotW staff ... ....(size: 1.9Kb)
Independent online (SA)
22 Feb 2013
London - A former top executive at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World said Friday he had gone through “hell” after British prosecutors finally cleared him of phone-hacking nearly two years after his arrest ... Eight of those suspects - including former News of the World editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson - were charged last year with phone-hacking while three others were told they would not face charges ... - Sapa-AFP. ....(size: 3.4Kb)
The Guardian
22 Feb 2013
Former News of The World executive editor says he is 'relieved and angry' at the news he will face no further action. Neil Wallis, the former executive editor of the News of the World, will have no further action taken against him. Photograph. Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images ... On Friday morning he announced on Twitter ... Wallis worked under Andy Coulson's editorship before he become the paper's executive editor in 2007 under Colin Myler ... ....(size: 4.8Kb)
The Daily Telegraph
19 Feb 2013
A prison officer is to be charged with misconduct in public office after allegedly selling information on a high profile prisoner to The Sun newspaper, the CPS have announced. 11.56AM GMT 19 Feb 2013 ... Prime Minister David Cameron's former spin doctor Andy Coulson and former News of the World royal correspondent Clive Goodman are charged with conspiracy to pay for information including a royal phone directory known as the "Green Book" ... ....(size: 7.5Kb)
The Independent
15 Feb 2013
Andy Coulson, then in No 10 as Cameron's Communications Director, regarded Gove's aide as untrustworthy and a liability. Coulson believed that three months earlier, when Cameron, George Osborne and Gove held private discussions in Notting Hill over failures of Conservative policy, Cummings had leaked details of the meeting. Coulson wanted Cummings' head and finally got it....(size: 6.3Kb)
Canberra Times
14 Feb 2013
LONDON. British police have arrested six former News of the World journalists in a new investigation into alleged phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's defunct tabloid ... News International declined to comment ... Those already facing trial over hacking at the News of the World include Andy Coulson, formerly the spokesman for the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, and Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International ... ....(size: 2.0Kb)
News24
14 Feb 2013
London - British police arrested six former News of the World journalists on Wednesday in a new probe into alleged phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's now-closed tabloid, Scotland Yard said ... Facing trial. Those already facing trial over hacking at the News of the World include British Prime Minister David Cameron's ex-spokesperson Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Murdoch's British newspaper wing ... - AFP. Read more on ... >. >....(size: 13.7Kb)
Independent online (SA)
14 Feb 2013
London - British police arrested six former News of the World journalists on Wednesday in a new probe into alleged phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's now-closed tabloid, Scotland Yard said ... Those already facing trial over hacking at the News of the World include British Prime Minister David Cameron's ex-spokesperson Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Murdoch's British newspaper wing ... - Sapa-AFP. ....(size: 3.7Kb)
The Daily Telegraph
13 Feb 2013
Coulson and Brooks charged ... Two former editors of the newspaper Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson and five other former employees; News of the World managing editor Stuart Kuttner; former news editor Greg Miskiw; former assistant editor Ian Edmondson; former chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck and former assistant editor James Weatherup have all been charged with hacking along with private investigator Glenn Mulcaire....(size: 6.3Kb)
Stuff
13 Feb 2013
Five suspects were arrested and taken in for questioning in London and one in Cheshire in northern England ... Prime Minister David Cameron's former media chief Andy Coulson, who was editor of the News of the World between 2003 and 2007, and Rebekah Brooks, the former boss of News International and a confidante of Murdoch, are among those charged with criminal offences ... ....(size: 1.8Kb)
Canberra Times
13 Feb 2013
British police have arrested six current or former journalists in a new probe into alleged phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's defunct News of the World tabloid ... Those already facing trial over hacking at the News of the World include British Prime Minister David Cameron's ex-spokesman Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Murdoch's British newspaper wing ... AFP. ....(size: 2.0Kb)
Reuters
13 Feb 2013
Five suspects were arrested and taken in for questioning in London and one in Cheshire in northern England ... Prime Minister David Cameron's former media chief Andy Coulson, who was editor of the News of the World between 2003 and 2007, and Rebekah Brooks, the former boss of News International and a confidante of Murdoch, are among those charged with criminal offences ... ....(size: 1.8Kb)
| Andy Coulson | |
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| Downing Street Director of Communications | |
| In office 11 May 2010 – 21 January 2011 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Succeeded by | Craig Oliver |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Andrew Edward Coulson (1968-01-21) 21 January 1968 (age 44) Billericay, Essex, England, UK |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Eloise Patrick (m. December 2000–present)[citation needed] |
| Children | 2 |
| Occupation | Journalist, newspaper editor |
Andrew Edward Coulson (born 21 January 1968[1][2]) is an English journalist and political strategist.
Coulson was the editor of the News of the World from 2003 until his resignation in 2007, following the conviction of one of the newspaper's reporters in relation to illegal phone-hacking.
He subsequently joined David Cameron's personnel as communications director, until announcing his departure on 21 January 2011 because of continued media coverage of the phone-hacking affair.[3][4] He was replaced on 2 February 2011 by former BBC Global News Controller of English Craig Oliver.[5] Coulson was arrested by the Metropolitan Police Service on 8 July 2011 "in connection with allegations of corruption and phone hacking".[6]
He was detained and charged with perjury by Strathclyde Police on 30 May 2012.[7][8][9]
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Early life[link]
Coulson grew up in Wickford, Essex. He attended Beauchamps High School, a secondary school and sixth form college, from 1979 to 1986. Coulson's parents moved from their Basildon council house to nearby Wickford during his childhood.[1]
Career[link]
Coulson started work at 18 as a junior reporter on the Basildon Echo in 1986. In 1988, he moved to The Sun, working with Piers Morgan on the Bizarre column and subsequently hiring current Sun editor Dominic Mohan. In 1994, he briefly moved to the Daily Mail, but after nine weeks moved back to The Sun to edit Bizarre. He set up the website page3.com, which was the first of News International's websites to make a profit. In 2001, in the run up to the general election, he asked Tony and Cherie Blair whether they were members of the mile high club. He became deputy editor of the News of the World in 2000.[10]
[edit] News of the World editor
Coulson replaced Rebekah Wade as editor in 2003. In an interview with the Press Gazette in 2005, he said that "Tabloid newspapers in this country do more for its people than any other newspapers in the world".[10]
Coulson resigned on 26 January 2007 over the News of the World phone hacking affair which would several weeks later see the jailing for four months of the paper's Royal correspondent Clive Goodman. Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, remunerated by the newspaper, was given a custodial sentence of six months.[11]
On 21 July 2009 Coulson appeared in front of the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee and denied any knowledge of the phone hacking scandal, saying "my instructions to the staff were clear – we did not use subterfuge of any kind unless there was a clear public interest in doing so. They were to work within the PCC code at all times".[12]
In 2008 an employment tribunal upheld a claim of bullying by Coulson whilst he was at the News of The World. A Stratford employment tribunal upheld a claim of unfair dismissal claimed by senior sports writer Matt Driscoll, and stated "We find the behaviour to have been a consistent pattern of bullying behaviour".[13] The judgement singled out Coulson for making "bullying" remarks in an email to Driscoll. The paper was told to pay Driscoll £800,000.[14]
Conservative Party communications director[link]
Coulson became the Conservative Party's director of communications on 9 July 2007. Various media stories estimated his salary at between £275,000[15] and £475,000; the party indicated the latter figure was "inaccurate" and that his salary was "substantially less" but refused to provide an exact figure.[16] In July 2011 the Mail on Sunday alleged that Cameron had been about to appoint the BBC's Guto Harri, but was persuaded by Rebekah Wade to appoint Coulson. The paper quoted "an individual intimately involved in Mr Coulson's recruitment" as saying "Rebekah indicated the job should go to Andy. Cameron was told it should be someone acceptable to News International. The company was also desperate to find something for Andy after he took the rap when the phone hacking first became an issue. The approach was along the lines of, 'If you find something for Andy we will return the favour'."[17]
Director of Communications for the Prime Minister[link]
After David Cameron became Prime Minister in May 2010, he appointed Coulson as Director of Communications for the government at 10 Downing Street. His pay was £140,000, the highest paid special advisor.[18]
Coulson announced his resignation on 21 January 2011. He commented about the News of the World allegations "I stand by what I've said about those events but when the spokesman needs a spokesman it's time to move on."[19][20]
In July 2011 questions were raised about Coulson's security vetting at Number Ten. He had not been subjected to the highest level of vetting, "developed vetting", allowing unrestricted access to Top Secret material. His predecessors had had the highest level of vetting, as did his successor and (after his departure) his deputy. The Guardian said that the disclosure "is understood to have 'absolutely shocked' some Whitehall information staff."[21] According to Chris Bryant MP, senior officials working with Coulson believed that he had the same clearance level as his predecessor.[22] Coulson continued to be an embarrassment to Cameron as it emerged that he was still being paid by News International while working for the then opposition leader.[23]
Private Consultancy[link]
On the 7 February 2011, Coulson and his wife established 'Elbrus Consultants Ltd' (UK Company Number 07519035). The purpose of the company is not recorded by Companies House, but is reportedly a PR agency.[24] Clients include 'One Young World'.[25] Kate Roberston of One Young World told the Guardian "He can't do One Young World work at the moment, that is absolutely clear".[26]
Renewed allegations on phone hacking[link]
Main article: News of the World phone hacking affair
As the Conservative Party's director of communications, Coulson continued to be subjected to allegations that he was aware of the hacking of phones while serving as the editor of News of the World. On 7 July 2009, John Prescott called on leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron to remove Coulson from his position, after The Guardian revealed further details about phone-hacking by the News of the World.[27] Cameron, though, defended Coulson on the morning of 9 July: "I believe in giving people a second chance. As director of communications for the Conservatives he does an excellent job in a proper, upright way at all times."[28]
On 1 September 2010 The New York Times printed new allegations from former News of the World reporters alleging that Coulson had "actively encouraged" reporters to illegally intercept voicemail messages, and that he "was present during discussions about phone hacking".[29] Coulson has denied these latest claims.[30] Sean Hoare, – showbusiness reporter at News of the World during Coulson's reign – speaking on Five Live, who accused Coulson of lying, has said that indeed Coulson did not ask him to phone hack but veiled his request in "metaphorical language" and asked him to practice his "dark arts".[31] And Clive Goodman, in a letter from 2007: "The practice was widely discussed in the daily editorial conference, until explicit reference to it was banned by the editor."[32]
A report aired on Channel 4's Dispatches in October included remarks made by an unnamed source, said to have been a former senior journalist at the News of the World who worked alongside Coulson. The source alleged that Coulson had personally listened to messages obtained through phone hacking.[33][34]
He was a witness in HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan, where he denied under oath that he had any knowledge of phone hacking at the News of the World, or that he knew Glenn Mulcaire, the private detective at the centre of controversy.[35]
However, the Crown Prosecution Service said in December 2010 that it had determined that there was insufficient evidence to charge Coulson over allegations that he was aware of phone-hacking at the publication. The CPS said that witnesses interviewed by Metropolitan Police – including those who had previously made allegations through media outlets – had not been willing to provide admissible evidence.[36]
The Guardian reported on 7 July 2011 that Coulson was to be arrested the following day, along with a senior journalist whom the paper refused to name.[37]
Coulson was arrested at Scotland Yard at 10:30 am on 8 July 2011.[38] He was questioned under caution, and later that day released on police bail until October, but made no comment on his release.[39]
Perjury charge[link]
He was detained by Strathclyde Police at 0630 BST on 30 May 2012 in London, and taken to Govan Police Station in Glasgow arriving shortly before 1530 BST.[7] He was later charged with having committed perjury in 2010 during HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan.[8][9] [40]
Personal life[link]
Coulson married Eloise Patrick; they have two children and live in Forest Hill, South London.[1] He follows Tottenham Hotspur.[41]
See Also[link]
- News International phone hacking scandal
- Phone hacking scandal reference lists
- Metropolitan police role in phone hacking scandal
References[link]
- ^ a b c Adams, Guy (2 June 2007). "Andy Coulson: Blue-eyed boy". The Independent (UK). http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/andy-coulson-blueeyed-boy-451358.html. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
- ^ Robinson, James (3 June 2010). "The Tories bring on new spinner". The Observer (UK). http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2007/jun/03/pressandpublishing.marketingandpr. Retrieved 30 November 2010.
- ^ "Coulson resigns due to phone-hacking scandal". The Spy Report (Media Spy). 21 January 2011. http://www.mediaspy.org/report/2011/01/21/uk-coulson-resigns-due-to-phone-hacking-scandal. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
- ^ "Coulson Quits No 10 Over Phone-Hack Pressure". Sky News. 21 January 2011. http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Andy-Coulson-Resigns-Downing-Street-Say/Article/201101315902865?lpos=Politics_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15902865_Andy_Coulson_Resigns%2C_Downing_Street_Say. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
- ^ "BBC's Craig Oliver replacing Andy Coulson at No 10". BBC News. 2 February 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12348159.
- ^ Siddique, Haroon; Gabbatt, Adam; Quinn, Ben (8 July 2011). "News of the World phone-hacking scandal – live updates". guardian.co.uk (London: Guardian News and Media Ltd). http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jul/08/news-of-the-world-phone-hacking-scandal#block-25. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
- ^ a b BBC News. 30 May 2012. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18262740.
- ^ a b Rose, Gareth (31 May 2012). "Scottish police charge Andy Coulson with Tommy Sheridan trial perjury". scotsman.com. http://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/top-stories/scottish-police-charge-andy-coulson-with-tommy-sheridan-trial-perjury-1-2326534. Retrieved 31 May 2012.
- ^ a b Carrell, Severin; Wintour, Patrick (30 May 2012). "Andy Coulson charged with perjury". guardian.co.uk. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/30/andy-coulson-charged-with-perjury. Retrieved 31 May 2012.
- ^ a b Gibson, Owen (29 April 2005). "The Guardian profile: Andy Coulson". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2005/apr/29/newsoftheworld.pressandpublishing.
- ^ "Pair jailed over royal phone taps", BBC News, 26 January 2007
- ^ BBC, 21 July 2009, Coulson 'didn't condone hacking'
- ^ Fitzsimmons, Caitlin (18 December 2008). "Ex-editor Andy Coulson bullied News of the World reporter, rules tribunal". London: guardian online. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/18/andy-coulson-bullied-news-of-the-world-reporter. Retrieved 8 July 2009.
- ^ The Guardian, 23 November 2009, News of the World faces £800,000 payout in bullying case
- ^ Hope, Christopher (10 June 2010). "Andy Coulson takes £135,000 pay cut to join Coalition". The Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/7818326/Andy-Coulson-takes-135000-pay-cut-to-join-Coalition-but-is-paid-more-than-Nick-Clegg.html. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
- ^ Helm, Toby (2 June 2007). "'£475,000 Coulson' row adds to woes". The Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1553387/475000-Coulson-row-adds-to-woes.html. Retrieved 11 July 2011.
- ^ Mail on Sunday, 17 July 2011, Rebekah vetoed BBC man and told Cameron he should give No10 job to Andy Coulson
- ^ "David Cameron's PR director Andy Coulson paid £140,000". The BBC. 10 June 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/politics/10285825.stm. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
- ^ Coulson Resigns From Downing Street Job 21 January 2011
- ^ "Andy Coulson quits Downing Street communications role". The BBC. 21 January 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12251456. Retrieved 21 January 2011.
- ^ The Guardian, 22 July 2011, Pressure mounts on David Cameron over Andy Coulson's security level
- ^ The Observer, 24 July 2011, Fears over Andy Coulson's clearance as officials admit: We thought he had been vetted
- ^ Robinson, James; Curtis, Polly (23 August 2011). "Andy Coulson reportedly paid by News International when hired by Tories". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/23/andy-coulson-news-international-tories.
- ^ Cartmell, Matt (8 April 2011). "Andy Coulson could remain 'the story' for Elbrus Consultants' clients, expert warns". PRWeek (London). http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/1064713/Andy-Coulson-remain-the-story-Elbrus-Consultants-clients-expert-warns/.
- ^ "Andy Coulson’s new PR business Elbrus Consultants under pressure". Marketing Magazine (London). 11 July 2011. http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/news/1079302/Andy-Coulsons-new-PR-business-Elbrus-Consultants-pressure/.
- ^ Helm, Toby; Boffey, Daniel (9 July 2011). "Phone hacking: I warned No 10 over Coulson appointment, says Ashdown". Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/09/phone-hacking-andy-coulson-paddy-ashdown.
- ^ Davies, Caroline (8 July 2009). "David Cameron urged to sack Tory spin doctor Andy Coulson". London: guardian online. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jul/08/andy-coulson-phone-hacking-cameron. Retrieved 8 July 2009.
- ^ James Robinson and Andrew Sparrow "News of the World phone hacking – Andy Coulson may be grilled by MPs", The Guardian, 9 July 2009.
- ^ Don Van Natta Jr., et al "Tabloid Hack Attack on Royals, and Beyond", New York Times, 1 September 2010.
- ^ Haroon Siddique "Phone hacking claims: John Prescott calls for police conduct inquiry", The Guardian, 3 September 2010.
- ^ Hoare speaking on Five Live, Drive, 3 September 2010. Hoare was found dead at home on 18 July 2011.
- ^ [1] The Independent, 16 August 2011
- ^ Davies, Nick (3 October 2010). "Phone-hacking scandal: Andy Coulson 'listened to intercepted messages'". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/03/phone-hacking-scandal-andy-coulson. Retrieved 5 October 2010.
- ^ "Andy Coulson listened to hacked messages, former colleague says". The Spy Report (Media Spy). 4 October 2010. http://www.mediaspy.org/report/2010/10/04/uk-andy-coulson-listened-to-hacked-messages-former-colleague-says. Retrieved 5 October 2010.
- ^ The Guardian article on Coulson in HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan. Accessed 21 January 2011
- ^ "Coulson won’t be prosecuted over phone-hacking". The Spy Report (Media Spy). 11 December 2010. http://www.mediaspy.org/report/2010/12/11/uk-coulson-wont-be-prosecuted-over-phone-hacking. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
- ^ Hill, Amelia (7 July 2011). "Andy Coulson to be arrested over phone hacking tomorrow". The Guardian (UK). http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/07/andy-coulson-arrest-phone-hacking. Retrieved 7 July 2011.
- ^ "Coulson And Goodman Released In NOTW Probe". 8 July 2011. http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/News-Of-The-World-Andy-Coulson-Former-Editor-Arrested-By-Police-Investigating-Phone-Hacking/Article/201107216026496?lpos=UK_News_Top_Stories_Header_1&lid=ARTICLE_16026496_News_Of_The_World%3A_Andy_Coulson%2C_Former_Editor%2C_Arrested_By_Police_Investigating_Phone_Hacking. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
- ^ Hughes, Mark (8 July 2011). "News of the World phone hacking: Andy Coulson arrested and his computer seized". The Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8627018/News-of-the-World-phone-hacking-Andy-Coulson-arrested-and-his-computer-seized.html. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
- ^ http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/coulson-charged-over-sheridan-trial-evidence.17749022 The Herald report
- ^ "Profile: Andy Coulson". BBC News (BBC). 8 July 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11204150. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
External links[link]
- Andy Coulson collected news and commentary at The Guardian
- Profile: Andy Coulson, BBC News, 8 July 2011
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| Preceded by | Martin Bell |
| Majority | 14,487 (32%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1971-05-23) 23 May 1971 (age 41) London, United Kingdom |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Frances Howell (1998–present) |
| Children | Luke Liberty |
| Residence | 11 Downing Street (Official) |
| Alma mater | Magdalen College, Oxford |
| Website | Official website Constituency website |
George Gideon Oliver Osborne,[1] MP (born 23 May 1971[2] in Paddington, London)[3] is a British Conservative politician. He is the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom, a role to which he was appointed in May 2010, and has been the Member of Parliament for Tatton since 2001.
Osborne is part of the old Anglo-Irish aristocracy, known in Ireland as the Ascendancy. He is the heir to the Osborne baronetcy (of Ballentaylor, in County Tipperary, and Ballylemon, in County Waterford).[4][5]
He was educated at St Paul's School and Magdalen College, University of Oxford, before entering politics.
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Early life and family[link]
Osborne is the eldest of four sons. His father, Sir Peter Osborne, 17th Baronet, co-founded the firm of fabric and wallpapers designers Osborne & Little.[6][7] His mother is Felicity Alexandra Loxton-Peacock, the daughter of artist Lady Clarisse Loxton Peacock.[2][8]
Originally named Gideon Oliver,[2] he changed his name to George when he was 13. In an interview in July 2005, Osborne said: "It was my small act of rebellion. I never liked it. When I finally told my mother she said, 'Nor do I'. So I decided to be George after my grandfather, who was a war hero. Life was easier as a George; it was a straightforward name."[9]
Education[link]
Osborne was educated at two independent schools in west London: at Norland Place School in Holland Park and St Paul's School in Barnes (near Hammersmith),[10] followed by a Bachelor's degree at Magdalen College at the University of Oxford[2] where he received a 2:1 in Modern History.[7] At Oxford he edited the university's Isis magazine,[11] and was a member of the Bullingdon Club.[11] He also attended Davidson College in North Carolina for a semester as a Dean Rusk Scholar.[12]
Early career[link]
Osborne's first job was entering the names of people who had died in London into a National Health Service computer.[13] He also briefly worked for Selfridges, re-folding towels.[13] He originally intended to pursue a career in journalism, but instead got a job at Conservative Central Office.[13]
Political career[link]
Osborne joined the Conservative Research Department in 1994 and became head of the Political Section. Between 1995 and 1997 he worked for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food as special advisor to minister Douglas Hogg (during the BSE crisis) and worked in the Political Office at 10 Downing Street.
Between 1997 and 2001, he worked for then Conservative leader William Hague as a speechwriter and Political Secretary. In this role he helped prepare Hague for the weekly session of Prime Minister's Questions, often playing the role of Prime Minister Tony Blair. Under the successive leaderships of Michael Howard and David Cameron he remained on the Prime Minister's Questions team.
Member of Parliament[link]
Elected as the Member of Parliament for Tatton, Cheshire, in June 2001, Osborne succeeded the Independent MP Martin Bell, who had famously defeated the controversial former Conservative minister Neil Hamilton at the 1997 election. Osborne won with a majority of 8,611, becoming (at that time) the youngest Conservative MP in the House of Commons. At the 2005 election, he was re-elected with an increased majority of 11,731 (51.8% of the vote) and in 2010 increased his majority still further to 14,487.
Shadow Cabinet[link]
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George Osborne at Conservative Spring Forum 2006 in Manchester.
In September 2004, Osborne was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
Following the 2005 general election, he was promoted to Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer at the young age of 33 by the then-Conservative Party leader Michael Howard. Howard had initially offered the post to William Hague, who turned it down. Press reports suggest that Howard's second choice for the post was in fact David Cameron, who also rejected the job as he preferred to take on a major public service portfolio (he was made Shadow Education Secretary). Thus Howard turned to Osborne as his third choice for the role.[14] His promotion prompted speculation he would run for leadership of the Conservative Party when Howard stepped down, but he ruled himself out within a week.[15] Osborne served as campaign manager for David Cameron's leadership campaign, and kept the Shadow Chancellor's post when Cameron became leader later that year.
In 2009 when David Cameron was asked whether or not he would be willing to sack a close colleague such as Osborne, he stated, "With George, the answer is yes. He stayed in my shadow cabinet not because he is a friend, not because we are godfathers to each other's children but because he is the right person to do the job. I know and he knows that if that was not the case he would not be there."[16]
Osborne has expressed an interest in the ideas of "tax simplification" (including the idea of flat tax). He set up a "Tax Reform Commission" in October 2005 to investigate ideas for how to create a "flatter, simpler" tax system. The system then proposed would reduce the income tax rate to a flat 22%, and increase personal allowance from £4,435 to £10,000-£15,500. The idea of a flat tax is not included in the current Conservative party manifesto.[17]
Each year between 2006 and 2009, Osborne attended the annual Bilderberg Conference, a meeting of influential people in business, finance and politics.[18]
Comments on Gordon Brown[link]
During Osborne's response to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown's Pre-Budget Report on 5 December 2005, Osborne accused Brown of being "a Chancellor past his sell by date, a Chancellor holding Britain back". In an interview the same week, he also referred to Brown as 'brutal' and 'unpleasant'.[19] In October 2006 Osborne was rebuked by the Speaker of the House of Commons when he attacked the Chancellor at Oral Questions to the Chancellor by citing a comment attributed to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions John Hutton, describing the Chancellor as likely to make an 'effing awful' Prime Minister.[20] It was widely suggested that Osborne was leading an assault on Brown which would allow the Conservatives to discredit him without damaging David Cameron's public image.[20][21][22] Osborne faced criticism from some quarters for appearing to suggest that Brown was "faintly autistic". After talking about his ability to recall odd facts in an interview, a host suggested that Osborne may have been "faintly autistic"; Osborne responded by saying that "We're not getting onto Gordon Brown yet".[23]
"Run on the pound"[link]
On 14 November 2008, in an intervention described by the BBC's Nick Robinson as "pretty extraordinary",[24] Osborne spoke out warning that the more the government borrows the less attractive sterling becomes. He said: "We are in danger, if the government is not careful, of having a proper sterling collapse, a run on the pound." Labelling Gordon Brown's tactic as a "scorched-earth policy", which a future Conservative government would have to clear up, Osborne continued: "His view is he probably won't win the next election. The Tories can clear this mess up after I've gone."[24] Lord Kalms, a prominent supporter of David Davis in the 2005 leadership election, told the BBC that former shadow home secretary David Davis would be more appropriate as shadow chancellor.[24]
The Deripaska claim[link]
In October 2008, Osborne's school and university friend the financier Nathaniel Rothschild stated that George Osborne had tried to solicit a £50,000 donation from the Russian aluminium magnate Oleg Deripaska, which would have been a violation of the law against political donations by foreign citizens.[25][26] Rothschild wrote: "[I]t turns out that your obsession with Mr. Mandelson is trivial in light of Mr. Osborne's actions. I also think it ill behoves all political parties to try and make capital at the expense of another in such circumstances. Perhaps in future it would be better if all involved accepted the age old adage that private parties are just that."[27] Rothschild had hosted Deripaska, Osborne and Lord Mandelson at a party in his villa in Corfu. The alleged solicitation of a donation occurred on Deripaska's yacht during the party.[28] The Electoral Commission received a formal complaint initiated in a letter by the Liberal Democrats' Home Affairs Spokesman, Chris Huhne, requesting them to investigate the claims against Osborne. The Commission rejected the claims and said it saw "no information" suggesting an offence.[29][30] The story was coined by the press as 'Yachtgate.'[31]
Expenses[link]
In 2009, he received criticism for the way he had handled his expenses, after he was found to have "flipped" his second home,[32] changing which property he designated as his second home in order to pay less capital gains tax. The Lib Dems estimated he owed £55,000 to the public purse as a result of this.[33] He had previously paid back £1,193 on overpayments on his mortgage and chauffeur fares[34] after a complaint from a Labour activist, and it also emerged that he had claimed £47 for two copies of a DVD of his own speech on "value for taxpayers' money".[35] Parliament's standards commissioner's report found that although Mr Osborne had breached the rules the offence was "unintended and relatively minor". Osborne had been told at the time by the Fees Office that his claims would be within the rules. "We entirely accept that Mr Osborne derived no significant benefit from them," the report added. The BBC's Political Correspondent Iain Watson said the repayment was relatively small in comparison with those made by some other MPs and would not be regarded as politically damaging.[36]
2010 general election campaign[link]
During the 2010 general election campaign, Osborne was considered to have been sidelined due to his perceived unpopularity and the perception as a 'weak link' by both the Liberal Democrat and Labour strategists.[37]
Political views[link]
The Financial Times describes Osborne as "metropolitan and socially liberal. He is hawkish on foreign policy with links to Washington neo-conservatives and ideologically committed to cutting the state. A pragmatic Eurosceptic".[38] There is evidence of this commitment to cutting the state in his party's manifesto, with Osborne and the Conservatives seeking to cut the deficit "faster and deeper" than any other main party as well as committing to various tax cuts such as inheritance tax and national insurance. According to an IFS report before the 2010 election,[39] the Conservatives needed to find more money from cuts beyond what they had outlined than any other major party, although the report was also critical of Labour and the Lib Dems.
Chancellor of the Exchequer[link]
Osborne was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer on 12 May 2010 and, as per custom with Cabinet Ministers, was sworn in as a Privy Counsellor the next day.[40]
Osborne acceded to the chancellorship in the continuing wake of the financial crisis. Two of his first acts were setting up the Office of Budget Responsibility and commissioning a government-wide spending review, to conclude in autumn 2010, to set limits on departmental spending until 2014–15.[41] In July 2010, Osborne seeking cuts of up to 25 per cent in government spending to tackle the deficit, taking on the £20 billion cost of building four new Vanguard-class submarine to bear Trident would require a severe reduction in the rest of the Ministry of Defence budget. The Chancellor insisted that Trident had to be considered as part of the MoD's core funding. He said, "The Trident costs, I have made it absolutely clear, are part of the defence budget." He warned that if Trident was considered core funding, there would have to be severe restrictions in the way that Britain operated militarily, amid suggestions that regiments could be axed, or, potentially, the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy amalgamated. Liam Fox said, "To take the capital cost would make it very difficult to maintain what we are currently doing in terms of capability."[42]
On 4 October 2010, in a speech at the Conservative conference in Birmingham, Osborne announced a cap on the overall amount of benefits a family can receive from the state, estimated to be around £500 a week from 2013. It has been estimated this could result in 50,000 unemployed families losing an average of £93 a week. He also announced that he would end the universal entitlement to child benefit, and removed the entitlement from people on the 40% and 50% income tax rates from 2013.[43]
In February 2011 Osborne announced Project Merlin whereby banks will lend about £190bn to businesses this year – including £76bn to small firms – curb bonuses and reveal some salary details of their top earners. The Bank of England will monitor whether loans targets are being met. Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Lord Oakeshott resigned after the agreement was announced. This was in addition to the government increasing its levy on banks to £2.5bn this year – raising an extra £800m. HSBC, Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Lloyds Banking Group have signed up to the Project Merlin agreement, while Santander has agreed to the lending parts of the deal. Other pledges include providing £200m of capital for David Cameron's Big Society Bank, which is supposed to finance community projects.[44]
2010[link]
Osborne set himself the target of reducing the UK's deficit to the point that, in the financial year 2015–16, the total public debt would be falling as a fraction of GDP.[45] On 24 May 2010, Osborne outlined £6.2bn cuts: "We simply cannot afford to increase public debt at the rate of £3bn each week."[46] A Financial Times editorial agreed.[47] In an open letter to the chancellor, however, the respected FT commentator Martin Wolf wrote: "I have been fascinated—if appalled—by the pre-Keynesian approach you and the prime minister have taken to the UK's fiscal challenges. What Keynes called "the Treasury view"—that fiscal policy has no effect on activity, even in a deep recession—is alive and well in Downing Street."[41] Comparing Coalition austerity measures with the Opposition's, Wolf commented that the "big shift from Labour. . . . is the cuts in welfare benefits."[48]
Leaked Treasury documents the next month revealed that Osborne anticipated his tighter spending would lead to 1.3 million jobs lost over the course of the parliament.[49] Osborne has termed those who object to his policy "deficit-deniers".[50]
In September, the IMF described Osborne's deficit reduction plans as "essential", though revised its growth estimate down,[51] and dozens of leading British CEO's publicly declared their support in a high-profile letter.[52] Others were openly hostile to Osborne's plans, notably David Blanchflower and Martin Wolf.[53][41][54] It was also reported in September that the quarterly UK trade deficit for April–June 2010 was the largest since annual records began in 1946.[55] "July's dreadful UK trade figures cast further doubt over the ability of the external sector to drive the recovery once the boost from government and consumer spending fades," commented Vicky Redwood of Capital Economics.[55]
George Osborne, presented the Government's Spending Review on 20 October, which fixed spending budgets for each government department up to 2014–15.[56][57] Before and after becoming chancellor, Osborne had alleged that the UK was on "the verge of bankruptcy".[58][59] When he maintained the stance to justify the Spending Review, Martin Wolf took issue: "The chancellor presents the hypothesis of looming national 'bankruptcy'. If so, the UK must have been bankrupt for much of the past two centuries."[60] A fortnight after his Review presentation, the Treasury Select Committee also accused the chancellor of using inflammatory language to justify the large public spending cuts.[61]
More bad news was to follow as it was reported that UK exports had fallen at a record pace in the fourth quarter of 2010, highlighting the fact that Britain had not escaped a plunge in global trade.[62] Vicky Redwood remarked: "Until the UK's export sector starts to perk up, any recovery in the overall economy seems unlikely."[62] The economy also posted a contraction of 0.5 percent for the final quarter of 2010.[63] Hetal Mehta from Dalwa Capitol described the negative growth as "a horrendous figure. An absolute disaster for the economy. . . . It seems that the economy is incredibly vulnerable. And with the fiscal tightening yet to fully bite, we will have to brace ourselves for a bumpy ride."[63] Osborne said that although the figures were disappointing, there was strong performances and growth from sections of the economy less affected by the weather, such as manufacturing.[63] He also declared that the poor figures and bad weather would not affect implementation of his austerity measures and budget deficit reduction, and that he would not be "blown off course".[63]
2011[link]
2011 ushered in better news, with the revised figures for the month of January indicating that the deficit in trade in goods had narrowed compared to December 2010, and by much more than expected.[64] "This is welcome news for the UK economy and signals a further rebalancing of the economy towards export-led manufacturing growth," said Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit Group.[64]
Osborne's policies caused continuing concern as a series of bad data indicated the deteriorating state of the UK economy.[65] Martin Wolf observed: "The release of the preliminary version of the May 2011 Economic Outlook from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development allows the reader to trace the disappointing path that the UK economy has taken",[66] and NIESR, predicting a growth slump, recommended delaying the spending cuts.[67] On 6 June, fifty-two people, including some of Britain's leading economists, two former Whitehall advisers and two signatories of the previous year's high-profile letter backing the Tories' cuts, publicly warned Osborne that the UK was too fragile to withstand his drastic spending cuts and that he must draw up a plan B.[68][69] As in January, Osborne dismissed the criticism.[70] Over the following week, the IMF reaffirmed its support for Osborne's cuts, again describing them as "essential", though again revising its growth prediction down,[71][72] and a number of economists publicly encouraged Osborne not to abandon his deficit-reduction programme.[73] The same week featured a repetition of a threat by Moody's to downgrade the UK's credit rating[74] (a Chinese ratings agency had already downgraded Britain's credit rating because it foresaw years of sluggish growth),[75] contradicting Osborne's claim a few weeks prior that the UK's credit rating had "come off negative outlook when other countries are facing downgrades. We have brought much-needed stability at home and attracted near universal confidence abroad".[74][76]
In June it was reported that Osborne's staff had been complaining privately to the BBC about an alleged negative bias in the latter's coverage of the economy, and Osborne aired the accusation publicly in a BBC interview.[77] The BBC rebutted Osborne's comments on its website.[77]
Second-quarter GDP-figures were, with just 0.2% growth, "horribly unimpressive".[78] The Office for National Statistics (ONS) argued the figures were heavily influenced by one-off, suppressing factors,[79] though Lex argued that, "Little weight should be put on" the ONS's argument.[78] Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls accused Osborne of being "breathtakingly complacent",[80] while Malcolm Barr, an economist at JPMorgan, said, "No one can claim that the economy is anything but disappointing".[81] Though the OBR's monthly survey of private sector economists showed progressive downgrades of GDP growth estimates—the July forecast was a 1.3 per cent rate of expansion, down from 1.7 per cent in March[82]—the OBR reported that public finances were on track.[82] Commenting on the low, 0.2% growth of GDP, Osborne, as on previous occasions, stated that, although the economy was carrying some "heavy weights",[82] abandoning his austerity programme "would only risk British jobs and growth."[83] An FT editorial again gave qualified praise for Osborne's performance.[84]
Within days, however, bad news emerged for the manufacturing sector, which had been "the economy's stellar performer since the UK emerged from recession".[85] Optimism among manufacturers fell for the first time in two years[85] (shortly thereafter it emerged that manufacturing had contracted in July, the first such decline in more than two years,[86] as British manufacturers fired a broadside at ministers' efforts to "rebalance" the economy);[87] Osborne's plan to offer a national insurance holiday to small companies to boost jobs growth in the UK's regions had had only a "minuscule" take-up since it was launched a year ago;[88] the CBI lowered its growth forecast for 2011 again, but emphasised that the economy was still expected to grow;[89] the IMF, pointing to weak growth prospects, cast doubt on Osborne's ability to meet his 2015–6 goal for eliminating the deficit;[90][91] the head of the OBR stated his belief that the UK would fail to meet its 2011 growth target of 1.7%;[92] leading builders merchants complained that the construction sector's recovery was being held back by Osborne's austerity measures;[93] the IMF estimated that British households would lose £1,500 a year for the next five years as a consequence of the austerity drive,[94] warned that the UK faced a "bumpy and uneven" recovery,[95] and that Osborne should prepare to be flexible;[95] NIESR, in a more outspoken fashion than the IMF, told Osborne that his cuts would lead to the deficit's existence past his 2015–16 target;[96] NIESR and the IMF estimated that the UK's structural unemployment rate would be worse than before the financial crisis;[97] UK car sales continued their uninterrupted fall for each month of Osborne's chancellorship;[98] and, with the Bank of England preparing to slash growth forecasts,[99] Business Secretary Vince Cable warned that the UK was facing the risk of a double-dip recession.[100]
With problems with eurozone and US debt peaking again, Osborne interrupted his holiday to make crisis calls.[101]
In November 2011, Osborne sold Northern Rock to Richard Branson's Virgin Money for a price that could range from £747m to £1bn.[102] Northern Rock, the first British bank in 150 years to suffer a bank run, had been taken into public ownership in 2008, then divided into two entities on January 1, 2010 - the other half being Northern Rock (Asset Management).[103] The Independent described the entity sold as the "detoxified arm" of the bank, while saying the taxpayers retained "responsibility for £20bn of toxic assets such as bad debts and closed mortgages." The newspaper quoted Ed Balls, the shadow Chancellor: "It is being sold off at a loss and I think there is a question as to whether or not this is the best time, with the markets in turmoil to get the best deal." It quoted Osborne that the takeover would create "a powerful new presence on the high street" offering "real choice and competition" for the public", and based on independent device and careful consideration the Treasury had decided it "was clear to us this was the best deal for the British taxpayer - we were getting more money back than any other deal on the table."[102] Osborne responded to concerns about the timing in The Daily Telegraph by saying that the 2008 Labour government had secretly made a deal with the European Commission in Brussels to sell the bank in or before 2013, and "[g]iven we were advised that Northern Rock plc would have been likely to remain loss-making [until] at least well into 2012, which would have depleted taxpayer resources still further, agreeing a sale now was even more imperative." The deal valued the bank at somewhat less than its £1.12bn net asset value, and "locks in a minimum loss" for taxpayers of £373m to £453m.[104]
It was reported in The Independent in December 2011 that Osborne had been involved in meetings[105] with bankers lobbying to avoid proposals in the Vickers Report[106] that were intended to reduce risks in the banking industry. The talks were alleged to be secret but were obtained via a Freedom of Information request.
2012[link]
In March 2012 Osborne faced opposition to changes in tax policy which included a reducing a 50% income tax rate on top earners, which he said had been specially designated by his predecessor as "temporary", to 45%, while imposing a VAT tax on food such as Cornish pasties when served at above ambient temperature. Critics were alarmed by the potential effect on vendors, with members on the Treasury Select Committee suggesting that Osborne was inexperienced with the issue after a comment that he 'couldn't remember' the last time he'd bought such a pasty from Greggs.[107] The Guardian called the pasty decision "logically correct", as pasties are hot food like kebabs, which are currently subject to the 20% tax, but called it "bad policy" politically, because raising the tax on pasties burdens lower income groups already facing 3.5% inflation but 1.1% wage growth.[108]
Personal life[link]
Osborne married The Hon. Frances Victoria Howell (b. 18 February 1969), author and elder daughter of former and current Conservative Cabinet Minister Lord Howell of Guildford, on 4 April 1998.[8] The couple have two children, Luke Benedict, born at Westminster, London, on 15 June 2001, and Liberty Kate, born at Westminster, London, on 27 June 2003.[3][13][109] He has an estimated personal fortune of around £4 million, as the beneficiary of a trust fund that owns a 15-per-cent stake in Osborne & Little, the wallpaper-and-fabrics company co-founded by his father, Sir Peter Osborne, Bt.[110][111][112]
See also[link]
- Conservative Research Department
- Cameron Ministry
- New Enterprise Council (Conservative Party, United Kingdom)
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| Born | Rebekah Mary Wade[1][2] (1968-05-27) 27 May 1968 (age 44) Warrington, Lancashire, England[3][4][5] |
| Occupation | Journalist, newspaper editor[5] |
| Notable credit(s) | The Post, The Sun, News of the World[5] |
| Spouse | Ross Kemp (m. 2002–09, divorced[6]) Charlie Brooks (m. June 2009) |
Rebekah Mary Brooks (née Wade; born 27 May 1968) is a British journalist and former newspaper editor. She was Chief Executive Officer of News International from 2009 to 2011, having previously served as the youngest editor of a British national newspaper as editor of the News of the World[7] - from 2000 to 2003 - and the first female editor of The Sun[8] - from 2003 to 2009. Brooks married actor Ross Kemp in 2002. They divorced in 2009[6] and she married former racehorse trainer and author Charlie Brooks.
Brooks is a prominent figure in the News International phone hacking scandal, having been the editor of the News of the World when illegal phone hacking was allegedly carried out by the newspaper. On 15 July 2011, Brooks resigned as chief executive of News International, following widespread criticism of her role in the controversy.[9] On 17 July 2011, she was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and on suspicion of corruption - making corrupt payments to public officials.[10][11] On 13 March 2012, she was again arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.[12] On 15 May 2012, Brooks was charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.[13] Mrs Brooks said she was “baffled” by the decision to charge her.[14] Mr Brooks said he believed his wife had become 'the subject of a witch-hunt'. [15]
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Early life[link]
Brooks was born Rebekah Mary Wade in Warrington, Lancashire to a father variously described as a tugboat deckhand and gardener.[16] She grew up in Daresbury,[17][18] and decided she wanted to be a journalist from the age of fourteen.[19] She attended Appleton Hall High School – a state comprehensive school that had previously been a grammar school – in Appleton, near Warrington. A childhood friend, Louise Weir, described her as "more emotionally intelligent than academic", charming and always able to get what she wanted out of people.[5]
In Brooks' entry in Who's Who she stated that she studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, but did not claim to have a degree, and did not later answer questions about this; in a 2003 Spectator article, Stephen Glover suggested that, since she was working at the age of 20 for the News of the World, "we can safely assume that she did not study at the Sorbonne in any meaningful way".[20] In 2010, Brooks was awarded an honorary Fellowship from the University of the Arts, London, for her contribution to journalism.[21] She attended the London College of Communication, now part of the university, as a student.
The commentator Henry Porter claims little is known of Brooks personally.[5] Tim Minogue, who was one of her first co-editors before becoming a journalist at Private Eye magazine, recalled a “likeable, skinny, hollow-eyed girl who was very ambitious”.[22]
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After school she worked for the French magazine L'architecture d'aujourd'hui in Paris, before returning to Britain to work for Eddy Shah's Messenger Group.[5][19] Graham Ball, the then features editor at The Post newspaper, recalled that she was a notably astute and intelligent staff member.[5] When The Post was disbanded, Brooks then moved to the News of the World.[5]
[edit] News of the World
She joined the Sunday newspaper News of the World in 1989 as a secretary, before working as a feature writer for its Sunday magazine where she worked on "The A to Z of Soaps" with TV soap opera expert Chris Stacey, and eventually becoming the paper's deputy editor.[19] In 1994, she prepared for the News of the World's interview with James Hewitt, a paramour of Princess Diana, by reserving a hotel suite and hiring a team to "kit it out with secret tape devices in various flowerpots and cupboards," Piers Morgan, her former boss, wrote in his memoir The Insider, The New York Times relayed in July 2011.[23] In 1998, she transferred to the News of the World's daily counterpart, The Sun, where she was appointed its deputy editor. In this period, she reportedly attempted to persuade David Yelland to end the Page Three Girls feature.[24] She then returned to the News of the World in 2000 as editor; at the time, she was the youngest editor of a national British newspaper.[7] While at the News of the World, Brooks oversaw its campaign of "naming and shaming" individuals suspected to be convicted child sex offenders— a campaign launched in the wake of the murder of Sarah Payne.[5][25] The paper's decision led to angry mobs terrorising those they suspected of being child sex offenders,[26] which included several cases of mistaken identity and one instance where a paediatrician had her house vandalised, apparently by people who thought her occupation meant she was a paedophile.[27][28][29] The campaign was described as "grossly irresponsible" journalism by the Chief Constable of Gloucestershire, Tony Butler,[19] but Brooks defended the paper's actions on the BBC's Breakfast with Frost, claiming that it was "only right that the public have controlled access" to information on sex offenders.[30] The paper's already strong sales held up well under her leadership, while those of rival Sunday newspapers The People and the Sunday Mirror fell more sharply.[31]
Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott praised Brooks's handling of the story of his wife, Pauline, giving up one of her children for adoption as "very reasonable and professional" in style.[5]
[edit] The Sun
In January 2003, she returned to The Sun, replacing her former boss David Yelland, to become its first female editor.[31] On Brooks's first day as editor, the Page Three girl was Rebekah Parmar-Teasdale – the caption to the picture was "Rebekah from Wapping".[32] Soon after becoming editor, Brooks ran the headline "Bonkers Bruno Locked Up" concerning the mental health problems of former heavyweight boxing champion Frank Bruno. The next day The Sun ran a 600-word reply from the head of the mental health charity Sane, and since then has adopted a style guide on covering mental health stories prepared by the same charity. Brooks and her husband spent a day with the head of Sane and made donations to the charity.[33][34]
During a March 2003 appearance before the House of Commons Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport as part of an inquiry into privacy issues, Brooks stated that her newspaper had paid police officers for information.[35] Alison Clark, the director of corporate affairs at News International, later stated, "It is not company practice to pay police for information."[35]
Brooks has been chair of the organisation Women in Journalism,[19] and has served as a judge for the "Guardian Student Media Awards" in November 2003[36] and the tenth annual Police Bravery Awards in July 2005, the latter sponsored by The Sun.[37]
News International[link]
In June 2009, it was announced that she would leave The Sun in September 2009, to become chief executive of the newspaper's parent company, News International.[8] Dominic Mohan was named her successor as editor of The Sun.[38]
Phone hacking scandal[link]
A police enquiry revealed that the News of the World had a routine practice of intercepting mobile phone messages of celebrities, politicians and other public figures. The newspaper's reporter, Clive Goodman, and Glenn Mulcaire, a hired investigator, were convicted and jailed for intercepting the phone messages of members of the royal family in 2006.
Questioning by MPs[link]
In 2003, under questioning by the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee of the House of Commons, Chris Bryant MP asked her and Andy Coulson whether either of their newspapers had ever been involved in various improper acts. Brooks replied, "We have paid police for information in the past." Andy Coulson stepped in to say that payments were only made lawfully. The Sun, of which Brooks was editor, subsequently ridiculed Chris Bryant in a number of articles, starting with one about a photograph of him in his underpants from a gay dating web site. Brooks later claimed that in her response to Bryant's question she had merely been speaking about the widespread belief that payments had been made to police, and denied having any knowledge of specific payments.[39]
According to MPs, Rebekah Brooks refused three times to attend the committee again to be questioned further,[40] resulting in four committee members "considering asking the serjeant at arms to issue a warrant forcing Brooks to attend"; however they subsequently dropped this proposal because they believed their private lives would be investigated if they did so.[40][41] John Whittingdale, chair of the committee, stated there was a conversation "about the possible repercussions of issuing a warrant for Brooks but said that did not have any bearing on his decision and he did not believe News International would target committee members."[41]
On 11 May 2012, Rebekah Brooks appeared as a witness in the Leveson Inquiry.[42]
Milly Dowler[link]
In 2011, The Guardian[43] and a solicitor alleged that in 2002, when Brooks was editor, the paper had also hacked the voicemail of missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler (later found to be murdered), to access messages left by her parents. It was also alleged that messages had been deleted when the mailbox was getting full, to allow new messages to be left and illicitly listened to; this caused the missing girl's family to think that she was still alive and monitoring her messages. The New York Times London reporter Sarah Lyall wrote that, if the allegations were true, "it would mean either that Ms. Brooks had no idea how the paper she edited was obtaining information about the Dowler family for its articles, or that she knew about the hacking and allowed it."[43] In an email to her staff Brooks said it was "inconceivable" that she had known what was happening over Milly Dowler's voicemail.[44]
Resignation[link]
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In July 2011, Labour Party leader Ed Miliband said Brooks should "consider her position" after the Milly Dowler allegations.[45] Prime Minister David Cameron said that if Brooks had offered her resignation to him, he would have accepted it. Milly Dowler's parents also called for Brooks' resignation.
When Brooks told News of the World staff that the newspaper was being closed down, some reportedly said that all of their jobs had been sacrificed in order to save hers.[46] Andreas Whittam Smith suggested that Brooks' decision not to resign was symptomatic of "the self-serving, conceited thesis that 'only I, who was at the helm during the disaster, can steer us to safety.'"[47]
On 14 July, News Corporation's second largest shareholder, Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal Alsaud, called for her resignation in a BBC interview.[48]
Having previously had an offer of resignation rejected, Brooks resigned from News International on 15 July 2011.[49] She said, "As chief executive of the company, I feel a deep sense of responsibility for the people we have hurt and I want to reiterate how sorry I am for what we now know to have taken place. I have believed that the right and responsible action has been to lead us through the heat of the crisis. However my desire to remain on the bridge has made me a focal point of the debate. This is now detracting attention from all our honest endeavours to fix the problems of the past. Therefore I have given Rupert and James Murdoch my resignation. While it has been a subject of discussion, this time my resignation has been accepted."[50]
The Daily Telegraph reported that despite resigning from her position, Brooks remained on the company payroll and continued to receive her salary from News International, having been told by Rupert Murdoch to "travel the world on him for a year."[51]
Arrests and prosecution[link]
On 17 July 2011, Brooks was arrested by police on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and on suspicion of corruption allegations.[52][53][54] She was arrested by detectives working on Operation Weeting, the Metropolitan Police's phone hacking probe, and Operation Elveden, the probe examining illicit payments to police officers.[54] Brooks' public relations agent Dave Wilson told CNN that she did not know she was going to be arrested when she arrived for a pre-arranged interview with London's Metropolitan Police Service.[55]
After 12 hours in custody, Brooks was released on bail until October 2011.[56]
On 13 March 2012, Brooks was rearrested, together with her husband, on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.[12]
On 15 May 2012, it was announced that Brooks and five others were to be charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.[57]
Political connections[link]
There has been criticism of Brooks' influence on leading politicians, and possible connections between this and the phone hacking affair.[58] Most notably, Brooks and her husband have close social ties to Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife. For example, a December 2010 dinner party was attended by Cameron and James Murdoch.[59] In 2008 she was loaned a retired police horse by the Metropolitan Police. She kept it on her Oxfordshire farm, where it was ridden by David Cameron.[60]
Brooks is also a friend of Tony and Cherie Blair;[61] and Gordon and Sarah Brown.[62] Her wedding to Charlie Brooks in 2009 was attended by Gordon Brown and David Cameron.
Her ex-husband Ross Kemp "starred" the Labour Party spot for the 2010 UK General Elections.
Personal life[link]
Brooks became engaged to actor Ross Kemp (best known as Grant Mitchell in EastEnders) in 1996, and married him in June 2002 in Las Vegas.[52] On 3 November 2005, it was reported that Brooks had been arrested following an alleged assault on her husband. She was later released without charge and the police took no further action.[52] The Sun had been running a campaign against domestic violence at the time.[32][63] The couple had spent the previous evening in the company of the former Cabinet Minister David Blunkett, who had resigned for the second time on that day.[64]
Private Eye and The Independent[65] reported that the couple had separated; this was not widely reported in the remainder of the British press. The 7 March 2008 issue of Private Eye refers to her "paramour", former racehorse trainer and author Charlie Brooks. The Guardian reported on 5 June 2009, that she would marry Brooks.[66] The Independent reported that Brooks and her fiancé had married in a lakeside ceremony in June 2009.[67] The couple are key members of the Chipping Norton set, and live in Churchill, Oxfordshire, and London. [68] It was reported that a laptop and other items allegedly belonging to Charlie Brooks were found in the rubbish bins at the couple's London flat in Chelsea Harbour and, despite being claimed by Mr Brooks, were removed by police for examination.[69]
In July 2011, MP Chris Bryant claimed that Brooks had previously implied that he would loiter in a London park because he was homosexual,[70] and that Kemp had responded, "Shut up, you homophobic cow."[70]
Brooks is a friend of Sheryl Gascoigne, the ex-wife of footballer Paul Gascoigne.[24] She also attended the Prince of Wales' 50th birthday party.[19]
It was announced by Bell Pottinger that Rebekah and Charlie Brooks were expecting a daughter in early 2012 via a surrogate mother.[71]
See also[link]
- R v Brooks and five others
- News Corporation
- News Limited
- Rupert Murdoch
- James Weatherup
- News International phone hacking scandal
- Phone hacking scandal reference lists
- Metropolitan police role in phone hacking scandal
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External links[link]
- February 2012 Vanity Fair profile of Brooks
- Rebekah Brooks collected news and commentary at The Guardian
- Rebekah Brooks collected news and commentary at The New York Times
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Cameron studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Oxford, gaining a first class honours degree. He then joined the Conservative Research Department and became Special Adviser to Norman Lamont, and then to Michael Howard. He was Director of Corporate Affairs at Carlton Communications for seven years.
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In the 2010 general election held on 6 May, the Conservatives won 307 seats in a hung parliament. After five days of intense negotiations, Cameron formed a coalition with the Liberal Democrats. The 43-year-old Cameron became the youngest British Prime Minister since the Earl of Liverpool 198 years earlier.[3] Cameron leads the first coalition government of the United Kingdom since the Second World War.
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Family[link]
See also: Family of David Cameron and Samantha Cameron
David Cameron is the younger son of stockbroker Ian Donald Cameron (12 October 1932 – 8 September 2010)[4] and his wife Mary Fleur (née Mount, born 1934,[5] a retired Justice of the Peace, daughter of Sir William Mount, 2nd Baronet).[6] His father, Ian, was born with both legs deformed and underwent repeated operations to correct them. Cameron's parents were married on 20 October 1962.[5] He was born in London, and brought up in Peasemore, Berkshire.[7] Cameron has a brother, Allan Alexander (born 1963, a barrister and QC)[8] and two sisters, Tania Rachel (born 1965) and Clare Louise (born 1971).[5][9] His father was born at Blairmore House, a country house near Huntly, Aberdeenshire, and died near Toulon in France on 8 September 2010.[10] Blairmore was built by his great-great-grandfather, Alexander Geddes,[11] who had made a fortune in the grain trade in Chicago, and returned to Scotland in the 1880s.[12]
Through his paternal grandmother, Enid Agnes Maud Levita, Cameron is a direct descendant of King William IV by his mistress Dorothea Jordan. This illegitimate line consists of five generations of women starting with Elizabeth Hay, Countess of Erroll, née FitzClarence, William and Jordan's sixth child,[13] through to Cameron's grandmother (thereby making Cameron a 5th cousin of Queen Elizabeth II).[14] Cameron's paternal forebears also have a long history in finance. His father Ian was senior partner of the stockbrokers Panmure Gordon, in which firm partnerships had long been held by Cameron's ancestors, including David's grandfather and great-grandfather,[9] and was a Director of estate agent John D. Wood. David Cameron's great-great grandfather Emile Levita, a German-Jewish financier (and descendant of Renaissance scholar Elia Levita) who obtained British citizenship in 1871, was the director of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China which became Standard Chartered Bank in 1969.[14] His wife, Cameron's great-great grandmother, was a descendant of the wealthy Danish Jewish Rée family on her father's side.[15][16] One of Emile's sons, Arthur Francis Levita (died 1910, brother of Sir Cecil Levita),[17] of Panmure Gordon stockbrokers, together with great-great-grandfather Sir Ewen Cameron,[18] London head of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, played key roles in arranging loans supplied by the Rothschilds to the Japanese Central Banker (later Prime Minister) Takahashi Korekiyo for the financing of the Japanese Government in the Russo-Japanese war.[19]
Cameron's maternal grandfather was Sir William Mount, 2nd Baronet, an Army officer and the High Sheriff of Berkshire, and Cameron's maternal great-grandfather was Sir William Mount, 1st Baronet, CBE, Conservative MP for Newbury 1918–1922. Cameron's great-great grandmother was Lady Ida Matilda Alice Feilding. His great-great-great grandfather was William Feilding, 7th Earl of Denbigh, GCH, PC, a courtier and Gentleman of the Bedchamber.[20] His mother's cousin, Sir Ferdinand Mount, was head of 10 Downing Street's Policy Unit in the early 1980s. Cameron is the nephew of Sir William Dugdale, brother-in-law of Katherine, Lady Dugdale (died 2004) Lady-in-Waiting to HM The Queen since 1955,[21][22] and former Chairman of Aston Villa Football Club. Birmingham born documentary film-maker Joshua Dugdale is his cousin.[23]
Education[link]
From the age of seven, Cameron was educated at two independent schools: at Heatherdown Preparatory School at Winkfield, in Berkshire, which counts Prince Andrew and Prince Edward among its alumni. Due to good academic grades, Cameron entered its top academic class almost two years early.[24] At the age of thirteen, he went to Eton College in Berkshire, following his father and elder brother.[25] Eton is often described as the most famous independent school in the world,[26] and "the chief nurse of England's statesmen".[27] His early interest was in art. Cameron was in trouble as a teenager, six weeks before taking his O-Levels, when he was named as having smoked cannabis.[2] He admitted the offence and had not been involved in selling drugs, so he was not expelled, but was fined, prevented from leaving school grounds, and given a "Georgic" (a punishment which involved copying 500 lines of Latin text).[28]
Cameron passed 12 O-levels, and then studied three A-Levels in History of Art, History and Economics with Politics. He obtained three 'A' grades and a '1' grade in the Scholarship Level exam in Economics and Politics.[29] The following autumn he passed the entrance exam for Oxford University, where he was offered an exhibition.[30]
After leaving Eton in 1984,[31] Cameron started a nine month gap year. He worked as a researcher for Tim Rathbone, Conservative MP for Lewes and his godfather. In his three months he attended debates in the House of Commons.[32] Through his father, he was then employed for a further three months in Hong Kong by Jardine Matheson as a 'ship jumper', an administrative post.[33]
Returning from Hong Kong he visited the then Soviet Union, where he was approached by two Russian men speaking fluent English. Cameron was later told by one of his professors that it was 'definitely an attempt' by the KGB to recruit him.[34]
Cameron then began his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) at Brasenose College, Oxford.[35] His tutor, Professor Vernon Bogdanor, described him as "one of the ablest"[36] students he has taught, with "moderate and sensible Conservative" political views.[9] Guy Spier, who shared tutorials with him, remembers him as an outstanding student; "We were doing our best to grasp basic economic concepts. David - there was nobody else who came even close. He would be integrating them with the way the British political system is put together. He could have lectured me on it, and I would have sat there and taken notes.."[37] When commenting in 2006 on his former pupil's ideas about a "Bill of Rights" to replace the Human Rights Act, however, Professor Bogdanor, himself a Liberal Democrat, said, "I think he is very confused. I've read his speech and it's filled with contradictions. There are one or two good things in it but one glimpses them, as it were, through a mist of misunderstanding".[38]
While at Oxford, Cameron was a member of the elite student dining society the Bullingdon Club, which has a reputation for an outlandish drinking culture associated with boisterous behaviour and damaging property.[39] A photograph showing Cameron in a tailcoat with other members of the club, including Boris Johnson, surfaced in 2007, but was later withdrawn by the copyright holder.[40] Cameron's period in the Bullingdon Club is examined in the Channel 4 docu-drama When Boris Met Dave broadcast on 7 October 2009.[41] Cameron graduated in 1988 with a first class honours degree.[42]
Early political career[link]
Conservative Research Department[link]
After graduation, Cameron worked for the Conservative Research Department between September 1988[43] and 1993. A feature on Cameron in The Mail on Sunday on 18 March 2007 reported that on the day he was due to attend a job interview at Conservative Central Office, a phone call was received from Buckingham Palace. The male caller stated, "I understand you are to see David Cameron. I've tried everything I can to dissuade him from wasting his time on politics but I have failed. I am ringing to tell you that you are about to meet a truly remarkable young man."[44]
In 1991, Cameron was seconded to Downing Street to work on briefing John Major for his then bi-weekly session of Prime Minister's Questions. One newspaper gave Cameron the credit for "sharper [...] despatch box performances" by Major,[45] which included highlighting for Major "a dreadful piece of doublespeak" by Tony Blair (then the Labour Employment spokesman) over the effect of a national minimum wage.[46] He became head of the political section of the Conservative Research Department, and in August 1991 was tipped to follow Judith Chaplin as Political Secretary to the Prime Minister.[47]
However, Cameron lost to Jonathan Hill, who was appointed in March 1992. He was given the responsibility for briefing Major for his press conferences during the 1992 general election.[48] During the campaign, Cameron was one of the young "brat pack" of party strategists who worked between 12 and 20 hours a day, sleeping in the house of Alan Duncan in Gayfere Street, Westminster, which had been Major's campaign headquarters during his bid for the Conservative leadership.[49] Cameron headed the economic section; it was while working on this campaign that Cameron first worked closely with Steve Hilton, who was later to become Director of Strategy during his party leadership.[50] The strain of getting up at 4:45 am every day was reported to have led Cameron to decide to leave politics in favour of journalism.[51]
Special Adviser[link]
The Conservatives' unexpected success in the 1992 election led Cameron to hit back at older party members who had criticised him and his colleagues, saying "whatever people say about us, we got the campaign right," and that they had listened to their campaign workers on the ground rather than the newspapers. He revealed he had led other members of the team across Smith Square to jeer at Transport House, the former Labour headquarters.[52] Cameron was rewarded with a promotion to Special Adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont.[53]
Cameron was working for Lamont at the time of Black Wednesday, when pressure from currency speculators forced the Pound sterling out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism. At the 1992 Conservative Party conference, Cameron had difficulty trying to arrange to brief the speakers in the economic debate, having to resort to putting messages on the internal television system imploring the mover of the motion, Patricia Morris, to contact him.[54] Later that month Cameron joined a delegation of Special Advisers who visited Germany to build better relations with the Christian Democratic Union; he was reported to be "still smarting" over the Bundesbank's contribution to the economic crisis.[55]
Lamont fell out with John Major after Black Wednesday and became highly unpopular with the public. Taxes needed to be raised in the 1993 Budget, and Cameron fed the options Lamont was considering through to Conservative Central Office for their political acceptability to be assessed.[56] However, Lamont's unpopularity did not necessarily affect Cameron: he was considered as a potential "kamikaze" candidate for the Newbury By-election, which includes the area where he grew up.[57] However, Cameron decided not to stand.
During the by-election, Lamont gave the response "Je ne regrette rien" to a question about whether he most regretted claiming to see "the green shoots of recovery" or admitted "singing in his bath" with happiness at leaving the ERM. Cameron was identified by one journalist as having inspired this gaffe; it was speculated that the heavy Conservative defeat in Newbury may have cost Cameron his chance of becoming Chancellor himself, even though as he was not a Member of Parliament he could not have been.[58] Lamont was sacked at the end of May 1993, and decided not to write the usual letter of resignation; Cameron was given the responsibility to issue to the press a statement of self-justification.[59]
Home Office[link]
After Lamont was sacked, Cameron remained at the Treasury for less than a month before being specifically recruited by Home Secretary Michael Howard; it was commented that he was still "very much in favour".[60] It was later reported that many at the Treasury would have preferred Cameron to carry on.[61] At the beginning of September 1993, Cameron applied to go on Conservative Central Office's list of Prospective Parliamentary Candidates.[62]
According to Derek Lewis, then Director-General of Her Majesty's Prison Service, Cameron showed him a "his and hers list" of proposals made by Howard and his wife, Sandra. Lewis said that Sandra Howard's list included reducing the quality of prison food, although Sandra Howard denied this claim. Lewis reported that Cameron was "uncomfortable" about the list.[63] In defending Sandra Howard and insisting that she made no such proposal, the journalist Bruce Anderson wrote that Cameron had proposed a much shorter definition on prison catering which revolved around the phrase "balanced diet", and that Lewis had written thanking Cameron for a valuable contribution.[64]
During his work for Howard, Cameron often briefed the media. In March 1994, someone leaked to the Press that the Labour Party had called for a meeting with John Major to discuss a consensus on the Prevention of Terrorism Act. After an enquiry failed to find the source of the leak, Labour MP Peter Mandelson demanded assurance from Howard that Cameron had not been responsible, which Howard gave.[65][66] A senior Home Office Civil Servant noted the influence of Howard's Special Advisers saying previous incumbents "would listen to the evidence before making a decision. Howard just talks to young public school gentlemen from the party headquarters."[67]
Carlton[link]
In July 1994, Cameron left his role as Special Adviser to work as the Director of Corporate Affairs at Carlton Communications.[68] Carlton, which had won the ITV franchise for London weekdays in 1991, was a growing media company which also had film distribution and video producing arms. In 1997 Cameron played up the Company's prospects for digital terrestrial television, for which it joined with Granada television and BSkyB to form British Digital Broadcasting.[69] In a roundtable discussion on the future of broadcasting in 1998 he criticised the effect of overlapping different regulators on the industry.[70]
Carlton's consortium did win the digital terrestrial franchise but the resulting company suffered difficulties in attracting subscribers. In 1999 the Express on Sunday newspaper claimed Cameron had rubbished one of its stories which had given an accurate number of subscribers, because he wanted the number to appear higher than expected.[71] Cameron resigned as Director of Corporate Affairs in February 2001 in order to fight for election to Parliament, although he remained on the payroll as a consultant.[72]
Parliamentary candidacy[link]
Having been approved for the Candidates' list, Cameron began looking for a seat. He was reported to have missed out on selection for Ashford in December 1994 after failing to get to the selection meeting as a result of train delays.[73] Early in 1996, he was selected for Stafford, a new constituency created by boundary changes, which was projected to have a Conservative majority.[74] At the 1996 Conservative Party Conference he called for tax cuts in the forthcoming Budget to be targeted at the low paid and to "small businesses where people took money out of their own pockets to put into companies to keep them going".[75] He also said the Party, "Should be proud of the Tory tax record but that people needed reminding of its achievements ... It's time to return to our tax cutting agenda. The socialist Prime Ministers of Europe have endorsed Tony Blair because they want a federal pussy cat and not a British lion."[76]
When writing his election address, Cameron made his own opposition to British membership of the single European currency clear, pledging not to support it. This was a break with official Conservative policy but about 200 other candidates were making similar declarations.[77] Otherwise, Cameron kept very closely to the national party line. He also campaigned using the claim that a Labour Government would increase the cost of a pint of beer by 24p; however the Labour candidate David Kidney portrayed Cameron as "a right-wing Tory". Stafford had a swing almost the same as the national swing, which made it one of the many seats to fall to Labour: David Kidney had a majority of 4,314.[78][79]
In the round of selection contests taking place in the run-up to the 2001 general election, Cameron again attempted to be selected for a winnable seat. He tried out for the Kensington and Chelsea seat after the death of Alan Clark,[80] but did not make the shortlist.
He was in the final two but narrowly lost at Wealden in March 2000,[81] a loss ascribed by Samantha Cameron to his lack of spontaneity when speaking.[82]
On 4 April 2000 Cameron was selected as prospective candidate (PPC) for Witney in Oxfordshire. This had been a safe Conservative seat but its sitting MP Shaun Woodward (who had worked with Cameron on the 1992 election campaign) had "crossed the floor" to join the Labour Party; newspapers claimed Cameron and Woodward had "loathed each other",[83] although Cameron's biographers Francis Elliott and James Hanning describe them as being "on fairly friendly terms".[84] Cameron put a great deal of effort into "nursing" his potential constituency, turning up at social functions, and attacking Woodward for changing his mind on fox hunting to support a ban.[85]
During the election campaign, Cameron accepted the offer of writing a regular column for The Guardian's online section.[86] He won the seat with a 1.9% swing to the Conservatives and a majority of 7,973.[87][88]
Member of Parliament[link]
Upon his election to Parliament, he served as a member of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, a prominent appointment for a newly elected MP. Cameron's proposed that the Committee launch an inquiry into the law on drugs,[89] and urged the consideration of "radical options".[90] The report recommended a downgrading of Ecstasy from Class A to Class B, as well as moves towards a policy of 'harm reduction', which Cameron defended.[91]
Cameron determinedly attempted to increase his public profile, offering quotations on matters of public controversy. He opposed the payment of compensation to Gurbux Singh, who had resigned as head of the Commission for Racial Equality after a confrontation with the police;[92] and commented that the Home Affairs Select Committee had taken a long time to discuss whether the phrase "black market" should be used.[93] However, he was passed over for a front bench promotion in July 2002; Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith did invite Cameron and his ally George Osborne to coach him on Prime Minister's Questions in November 2002. The next week, Cameron deliberately abstained in a vote on allowing same-sex and unmarried couples to adopt children jointly, against a whip to oppose; his abstention was noted.[94] The wide scale of abstentions and rebellious votes destabilised the Iain Duncan Smith leadership.
In June 2003, Cameron was appointed as a shadow minister in the Privy Council Office as a deputy to Eric Forth, who was then Shadow Leader of the House. He also became a vice-chairman of the Conservative Party when Michael Howard took over the leadership in November of that year. He was appointed as the Opposition frontbench local government spokesman in 2004, before being promoted into the shadow cabinet that June as head of policy co-ordination. Later, he became Shadow Education Secretary in the post-election reshuffle.[95]
From February 2002[96] until August 2005 he was a non-executive director of Urbium PLC, operator of the Tiger Tiger bar chain.[97]
Leadership of the Conservative Party[link]
Leadership election[link]
Main article: Conservative Party (UK) leadership election, 2005
Following the Labour victory in the May 2005 general election, Michael Howard announced his resignation as leader of the Conservative Party and set a lengthy timetable for the leadership election. Cameron announced formally that he would be a candidate for the position on 29 September 2005. Parliamentary colleagues supporting him initially included Boris Johnson, Shadow Chancellor George Osborne, then Shadow Defence Secretary and deputy leader of the party Michael Ancram, Oliver Letwin[98] and former party leader William Hague.[99] Despite this, his campaign did not gain significant support prior to the 2005 Conservative Party Conference. However his speech, delivered without notes, proved a significant turning point. In the speech he vowed to make people, "feel good about being Conservatives again" and said he wanted, "to switch on a whole new generation."[100]
In the first ballot of Conservative MPs on 18 October 2005, Cameron came second, with 56 votes, slightly more than expected; David Davis had fewer than predicted at 62 votes; Liam Fox came third with 42 votes and Kenneth Clarke was eliminated with 38 votes. In the second ballot on 20 October 2005, Cameron came first with 90 votes; David Davis was second, with 57, and Liam Fox was eliminated with 51 votes.[101] All 198 Conservative MPs voted in both ballots.
The next stage of the election process, between Davis and Cameron, was a vote open to the entire Conservative party membership. Cameron was elected with more than twice as many votes as Davis and more than half of all ballots issued; Cameron won 134,446 votes on a 78% turnout, beating Davis's 64,398 votes.[102] Although Davis had initially been the favourite, it was widely acknowledged that Davis's candidacy was marred by a disappointing conference speech, whilst Cameron's was well received. Cameron's election as the Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition was announced on 6 December 2005. As is customary for an Opposition leader not already a member, upon election Cameron became a member of the Privy Council, being formally approved to join on 14 December 2005, and sworn of the Council on 8 March 2006.[103]
Cameron's appearance on the cover of Time in September 2008 was said by the Daily Mail to present him to the world as 'Prime Minister in waiting'.[104]
Reaction to Cameron as leader[link]
Cameron's relative youth and inexperience before becoming leader have invited satirical comparison with Tony Blair. Private Eye soon published a picture of both leaders on their front cover, with the caption "World's first face transplant a success".[105] On the left, New Statesman has unfavourably likened his "new style of politics" to Tony Blair's early leadership years.[106] Cameron is accused of paying excessive attention to image, with ITV News broadcasting footage from the 2006 Conservative Party Conference in Bournemouth which showed him wearing four different sets of clothes within the space of a few hours.[107] Cameron was characterised in a Labour Party political broadcast as "Dave the Chameleon", who would change what he said to match the expectations of his audience. Cameron later claimed that the broadcast had become his daughter's "favourite video".[108] He has also been described by comedy writer and broadcaster Charlie Brooker as being "like a hollow Easter egg with no bag of sweets inside" in his Guardian column.[109]
On the right, Norman Tebbit, former Chairman of the Conservative Party, has likened Cameron to Pol Pot, "intent on purging even the memory of Thatcherism before building a New Modern Compassionate Green Globally Aware Party".[110] Quentin Davies MP, who defected from the Conservatives to Labour on 26 June 2007, branded him "superficial, unreliable and [with] an apparent lack of any clear convictions" and stated that David Cameron had turned the Conservative Party's mission into a "PR agenda".[111] Traditionalist conservative columnist and author Peter Hitchens has written that, "Mr Cameron has abandoned the last significant difference between his party and the established left", by embracing social liberalism[112] and has dubbed the party under his leadership "Blue Labour", a pun on New Labour.[113] Cameron responded by calling Hitchens a "maniac".[114] Daily Telegraph correspondent and blogger Gerald Warner has been particularly scathing about Cameron's leadership, arguing that it is alienating traditionalist conservative elements from the Conservative Party.[115]
Cameron is reported to be known to friends and family as "Dave", though he invariably uses "David'" in public.[116] Critics often refer to him as "Call me Dave", implying populism in the same way as "Call me Tony" was used in 1997.[117] The Times columnist Daniel Finkelstein has condemned those who attempt to belittle Cameron by calling him 'Dave'.[118]
Shadow Cabinet appointments[link]
His Shadow Cabinet appointments have included MPs associated with the various wings of the party. Former leader William Hague was appointed to the Foreign Affairs brief, while both George Osborne and David Davis were retained, as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and Shadow Home Secretary respectively. Hague, assisted by Davis, stood in for Cameron during his paternity leave in February 2006.[119] In June 2008 Davis announced his intention to resign as an MP, and was immediately replaced as Shadow Home Secretary by Dominic Grieve, the surprise move seen as a challenge to the changes introduced under Cameron's leadership.[120]
In January 2009 a reshuffle of the Shadow Cabinet was undertaken. The chief change was the appointment of former Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke as Shadow Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Secretary, David Cameron stating that "With Ken Clarke's arrival, we now have the best economic team." The reshuffle saw eight other changes made.[121]
European Conservatives and Reformists[link]
During his successful campaign to be elected Leader of the Conservative Party, Cameron pledged that the Conservative Party's Members of the European Parliament would leave the European People's Party group, which had a "federalist" approach to the European Union.[122] Once elected Cameron began discussions with right-wing and eurosceptic parties in other European countries, mainly in eastern Europe, and in July 2006 he concluded an agreement to form the Movement for European Reform with the Czech Civic Democratic Party, leading to the formation of a new European Parliament group, the European Conservatives and Reformists, in 2009 after the European Parliament elections.[123] Cameron attended a gathering at Warsaw's Palladium cinema celebrating the foundation of the alliance.[124]
In forming the caucus, which had 54 MEPs drawn from eight of the 27 EU member states, Cameron reportedly broke with two decades of Conservative cooperation with the centre-right Christian Democrats, the European People's Party (EPP),[125] on the grounds that they are dominated by European federalists and supporters of the Lisbon treaty.[125] EPP leader Wilfried Martens, former prime minister of Belgium, has stated "Cameron's campaign has been to take his party back to the centre in every policy area with one major exception: Europe. ... I can't understand his tactics. Merkel and Sarkozy will never accept his Euroscepticism."[125] The left-wing New Statesman magazine reported that the US administration had "concerns about Cameron among top members of the team" and quoted David Rothkopf in saying that the issue "makes Cameron an even more dubious choice to be Britain's next prime minister than he was before and, should he attain that post, someone about whom the Obama administration ought to be very cautious."[126]
Shortlists for Parliamentary Candidates[link]
Similarly, Cameron's initial "A-List" of prospective parliamentary candidates has been attacked by members of his party,[127] with the policy now having been discontinued in favour of gender balanced final shortlists. These have been criticised by senior Conservative MP and Prisons Spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe as an "insult to women", Widdecombe accusing Cameron of "storing up huge problems for the future."[128][129] The plans have since led to conflict in a number of constituencies, including the widely reported resignation of Joanne Cash, a close friend of Cameron, as candidate in the constituency of Westminster North following a dispute described as "a battle for the soul of the Tory Party".[129]
2010 general election[link]
Main article: United Kingdom general election, 2010
The Conservatives had last won a general election in 1992. The general election of 2010 resulted in the Conservatives, led by Cameron, winning the largest number of seats (306). This was, however, 20 seats short of an overall majority and resulted in the nation's first hung parliament since February 1974.[130] Talks between Cameron and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg led to an agreed Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition.
Prime Minister[link]
Main article: Premiership of David Cameron
On 11 May 2010, following the resignation of Gordon Brown as Prime Minister and on his recommendation, Queen Elizabeth II invited Cameron to form a government.[131] At age 43, Cameron became the youngest British Prime Minister since Lord Liverpool, who was appointed in 1812.[3] In his first address outside 10 Downing Street, he announced his intention to form a coalition government, the first since the Second World War, with the Liberal Democrats.
Cameron outlined how he intended to "put aside party differences and work hard for the common good and for the national interest."[3] As one of his first moves Cameron appointed Nick Clegg, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, as Deputy Prime Minister on 11 May 2010.[131] Between them, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats control 363 seats in the House of Commons, with a majority of 76 seats.[132] On 2 June 2010, when Cameron took his first session of Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) as Prime Minister, he began by offering his support and condolences to those affected by the shootings in Cumbria.[133]
On 5 February 2011, Cameron criticised the failure of 'state multiculturalism', in his first speech as PM on radicalisation and the causes of terrorism.[134]
Policies and views[link]
Main article: Political positions of David Cameron
Self-description of views[link]
Cameron describes himself as a "modern compassionate conservative" and has spoken of a need for a new style of politics, saying that he was "fed up with the Punch and Judy politics of Westminster".[135] He has stated that he is "certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite."[136] He has also claimed to be a "liberal Conservative", and "not a deeply ideological person."[137] As Leader of the Opposition, Cameron stated that he did not intend to oppose the government as a matter of course, and would offer his support in areas of agreement. He has urged politicians to concentrate more on improving people's happiness and "general well-being", instead of focusing solely on "financial wealth".[138] There have been claims that he described himself to journalists at a dinner during the leadership contest as the "heir to Blair".[139] He believes that British Muslims have a duty to integrate into British culture, but notes that they find aspects such as high divorce rates and drug use uninspiring, and that "Not for the first time, I found myself thinking that it is mainstream Britain which needs to integrate more with the British Asian way of life, not the other way around."[140]
Daniel Finkelstein has said of the period leading up to Cameron's election as leader of the Conservative party that "a small group of us (myself, David Cameron, George Osborne, Michael Gove, Nick Boles, Nick Herbert I think, once or twice) used to meet up in the offices of Policy Exchange, eat pizza, and consider the future of the Conservative Party".[141]
Cameron co-operated with Dylan Jones, giving him interviews and access, to enable him to produce the book Cameron on Cameron.[142]
Cameron favours legalising same-sex marriage.[143]
Parliamentary votes[link]
During November 2001, Cameron voted to modify legislation allowing people detained at a police station to be fingerprinted and searched for an identifying birthmark to be applicable only in connection with a terrorism investigation.[144] In March 2002, he voted against banning the hunting of wild mammals with dogs,[145] being an occasional hunter himself.[146] In April 2003, he voted against the introduction of a bill to ban smoking in restaurants.[147] In June 2003, he voted against NHS Foundation Trusts.[148] Also in 2003, he voted to keep the controversial Section 28 clause.[149]
In March 2003, he voted against a motion that the case had not yet been made for the Iraq War,[150] and then supported using "all means necessary to ensure the disarmament of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction".[151] In October 2003, however, he voted in favour of setting up a judicial inquiry into the Iraq War.[152] In October 2004, he voted in favour of the Civil Partnership Bill.[153] In February 2005, he voted in favour of changing the text in the Prevention of Terrorism Bill from "The Secretary of State may make a control order against an individual" to "The Secretary of State may apply to the court for a control order ..."[154] In October 2005, he voted against the Identity Cards Bill.[155]
Criticism of other parties and politicians[link]
Cameron criticised Gordon Brown (when Brown was Chancellor of the Exchequer) for being "an analogue politician in a digital age" and referred to him as "the roadblock to reform".[156] He has also said that John Prescott "clearly looks a fool" in light of allegations of ministerial misconduct.[157] During a speech to the Ethnic Media Conference on 29 November 2006, Cameron also described Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, as an "ageing far left politician" in reference to Livingstone's views on multiculturalism.[158]
Since becoming prime minister, he has reacted to press reports that Brown could be the next head of the International Monetary Fund by hinting that he may block Brown from being appointed to the role, citing the huge national debt that Brown left the country with as a reason for Brown not being suitable for the role.[159]
Cameron has accused the United Kingdom Independence Party of being "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists, mostly,"[160] leading UKIP leader Nigel Farage to demand an apology for the remarks. Right-wing Conservative MP Bob Spink, who later defected to UKIP, also criticised the remarks,[161] as did the Daily Telegraph.[162]
Cameron was seen encouraging Conservative MPs to join the standing ovation given to Tony Blair at the end of his last Prime Minister's Question Time; he had paid tribute to the "huge efforts" Blair had made and said Blair had "considerable achievements to his credit, whether it is peace in Northern Ireland or his work in the developing world, which will endure".[163]
In 2006, Cameron made a speech in which he described extremist Islamic organisations and the British National Party as "mirror images" to each other, both preaching "creeds of pure hatred".[164] Cameron is listed as being a supporter of Unite Against Fascism.[165]
Cameron, in late 2009, urged the Lib Dems to join the Conservatives in a new "national movement" arguing there was "barely a cigarette paper" between them on a large number of issues. The invitation was rejected by the Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, who attacked Cameron at the start of his party's annual conference in Bournemouth, saying that the Conservatives were totally different from his party and that the Lib Dems were the true "progressives" in UK politics.[166]
Political commentary[link]
Allegations of social elitism[link]
While Leader of the Conservative Party, Cameron has been accused of reliance on "old-boy networks"[167] and attacked by his party for the imposition of selective shortlists of prospective parliamentary candidates.[127]
The Guardian has accused Cameron of relying on "the most prestigious of old-boy networks in his attempt to return the Tories to power", pointing out that three members of his shadow cabinet and 15 members of his front bench team were "Old Etonians".[167] Similarly, The Sunday Times has commented that "David Cameron has more Etonians around him than any leader since Macmillan" and asked whether he can "represent Britain from such a narrow base."[168] Former Labour cabinet minister Hazel Blears has said of Cameron, "You have to wonder about a man who surrounds himself with so many people who went to the same school. I'm pretty sure I don't want 21st-century Britain run by people who went to just one school."[169]
Some supporters of the party have accused Cameron's government for cronyism on the front benches, with Sir Tom Cowie, working-class founder of Arriva and former Conservative donor, ceasing his donations in August 2007 due to disillusionment with Cameron's leadership, saying, "the Tory party seems to be run now by Old Etonians and they don't seem to understand how other people live." In reply, Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague said when a party was changing, "there will always be people who are uncomfortable with that process".[170]
In a response to Cameron at Prime Minister's Questions in December 2009, Gordon Brown addressed the Conservative Party's inheritance tax policy, saying it "seems to have been dreamed up on the playing fields of Eton". This led to open discussion of "class war" by the mainstream media and leading politicians of both major parties, with speculation that the 2010 general election campaign would see the Labour Party highlight the backgrounds of senior Conservative politicians.[171][172]
Raising teaching standards[link]
At the launch of the Conservative Party's education manifesto in January 2010, Cameron declared an admiration for the "brazenly elitist" approach to education of countries such as Singapore and South Korea and expressed a desire to "elevate the status of teaching in our country". He suggested the adoption of more stringent criteria for entry to teaching and offered repayment of the loans of maths and science graduates obtaining first or 2.1 degrees from "good" universities. Wes Streeting, president of the National Union of Students, said "The message that the Conservatives are sending to the majority of students is that if you didn't go to a university attended by members of the Shadow Cabinet, they don't believe you're worth as much." In response to the manifesto as a whole, Chris Keates, head of teaching union NASUWT, said teachers would be left "shocked, dismayed and demoralised" and warned of the potential for strikes as a result.[173][174][175]
South Africa[link]
In April 2009, The Independent reported that in 1989, while Nelson Mandela remained imprisoned under the apartheid regime, David Cameron had accepted a trip to South Africa paid for by an anti-sanctions lobby firm. A spokesperson for Cameron responded by saying that the Conservative Party was at that time opposed to sanctions against South Africa and that his trip was a fact-finding mission. However, the newspaper reported that Cameron's then superior at Conservative Research Department called the trip "jolly", saying that "it was all terribly relaxed, just a little treat, a perk of the job. The Botha regime was attempting to make itself look less horrible, but I don't regard it as having been of the faintest political consequence." Cameron distanced himself from his party's history of opposing sanctions against the regime. He was criticised by Labour MP Peter Hain, himself an anti-apartheid campaigner.[176]
Turkey and Israel[link]
In a speech in Ankara in July 2010, Cameron stated unequivocally his support for Turkey's accession to the EU, citing economic, security and political considerations, and claimed that those who opposed Turkish membership were driven by "protectionism, narrow nationalism or prejudice".[177][178] In that speech, he was also critical of Israeli action during the Gaza flotilla raid and its Gaza policy, and repeated his opinion that Israel had turned Gaza into a "prison camp",[177] having previously referred to Gaza as "a giant open prison".[179] These views were met with mixed reactions.[180][181][182]
At the end of May 2011, Cameron stepped down as patron of the Jewish National Fund[183][184] the first British prime minister not to be patron of the charity in the 110 years of its existence.[185]
Allegations of recreational drug use[link]
During the leadership election, allegations were made that Cameron had used cannabis and cocaine recreationally before becoming an MP.[186] Pressed on this point during the BBC programme Question Time, Cameron expressed the view that everybody was allowed to "err and stray" in their past.[187] During his 2005 Conservative leadership campaign he addressed the question of drug consumption by remarking that "I did lots of things before I came into politics which I shouldn't have done. We all did."[187]
Cameron and Andy Coulson[link]
In 2007 Cameron appointed Andy Coulson, former editor of the News of the World as his director of communications. Coulson had resigned as the paper's editor following the conviction of a reporter in relation to illegal phone hacking, although stating that he knew nothing about it.[188][189] In June 2010 Downing Street confirmed Coulson's annual salary as £140,000, the highest pay of any special adviser to UK Government.[190] In January 2011 Coulson left his post, saying coverage of the phone hacking scandal was making it difficult to give his best to the job.[188] In July 2011 he was arrested and questioned by police in connection with further allegations of illegal activities at the News of the World, and released on bail. Despite a call to apologise for hiring Coulson by the leader of the opposition Ed Miliband, Cameron defended the appointment, saying that he had taken a conscious choice to give someone who had screwed up a second chance.[191][192] On 20 July, in a special parliamentary session at the House of Commons, arranged to discuss the News of the World phone hacking scandal, Cameron said that he "regretted the furore" that had resulted from his appointment of Coulson, and that "with hindsight" he would not have hired him.[193][194] Coulson was detained and charged with perjury by Strathclyde Police on 30 May 2012.[195][196]
Standing in opinion polls[link]
In the first month of Cameron's leadership, the Conservative Party's standing in opinion polls rose, with several pollsters placing it ahead of the ruling Labour Party. While the Conservative and Labour Parties drew even in early spring 2006, following the May 2006 local elections various polls once again generally showed Conservative leads.[197][198]
When Gordon Brown became Prime Minister on 27 June 2007, Labour moved ahead and its ratings grew steadily at Cameron's expense, an ICM poll[199] in July showing Labour with a seven point lead in the wake of controversies over his policies. An ICM poll[200][201] in September saw Cameron rated the least popular of the three main party leaders. A YouGov poll for Channel 4[202] one week later, after the Labour Party Conference, extended the Labour lead to 11 points, prompting further speculation of an early election.
Following the Conservative Party Conference in the first week of October 2007, the Conservatives drew level with Labour[203] When Brown declared he would not call an election for the autumn,[204] a decline in his and Labour's standings followed. At the end of the year a series of polls showed improved support for the Conservatives[205] giving them an 11 point lead over Labour. This decreased slightly in early 2008,[206] and in March the Conservatives had their largest lead in opinion polls since October 1987, at 16 points.[207] In May 2008, following the worst local election performance from the Labour Party in 40 years, the Conservative lead was up to 26 points, the largest since 1968.[208]
In December 2008, a ComRes poll showed the Conservative lead had decreased dramatically [209] though by February 2009 it had recovered to reach 12 points.[210] A period of relative stability in the polls was broken in mid-December 2009 and by January 2010 some polls were predicting a hung parliament[211][212]
A YouGov poll on party leaders conducted on 9–10 June 2011 found 44% of the electorate thought he was doing well and 50% thought he was doing badly, whilst 38% thought he would be the best PM, 23% preferred Ed Miliband and 35% didn't know.[213]
Until his veto on treaty changes to the European Union in December 2011 amid the Eurozone crisis, most opinion polls that year had shown a slim Labour lead. However, many opinion polls showed that the majority of voters felt that Cameron made the right decision,[214] Subsequent opinion polls have shown a narrow lead for the Conservatives ahead of Labour.[215]
Personal life[link]
Cameron married Samantha Gwendoline Sheffield, the daughter of Sir Reginald Adrian Berkeley Sheffield, 8th Baronet and Annabel Lucy Veronica Jones (now The Viscountess Astor), on 1 June 1996 at the Church of St Augustine of Canterbury, East Hendred, Oxfordshire.[5] The Camerons have had four children. Their first child, Ivan Reginald Ian, was born on 8 April 2002 in Hammersmith and Fulham, London,[216] with a rare combination of cerebral palsy and a form of severe epilepsy called Ohtahara syndrome, requiring round-the-clock care. Recalling the receipt of this news, Cameron is quoted as saying: "The news hits you like a freight train... You are depressed for a while because you are grieving for the difference between your hopes and the reality. But then you get over that, because he's wonderful."[217] Ivan died at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London, on 25 February 2009, aged six.[218]
David and Samantha Cameron have two daughters, Nancy Gwen[219] (born 2004), and Florence Rose Endellion (born 24 August 2010),[220] and a son, Arthur Elwen (born 2006).[221][222] Cameron took paternity leave when his second son was born, and this decision received broad coverage.[223] It was also stated that Cameron would be taking paternity leave after his second daughter was born.[220] His second daughter, Florence Rose Endellion, was born on 24 August 2010, three weeks prematurely, while the family was on holiday in Cornwall. Her third given name, Endellion, is taken from the village of St Endellion near where the Camerons were holidaying.[224][225]
A Daily Mail article from June 2007 quoted Sunday Times Rich List compiler Philip Beresford, who had valued the Conservative Leader for the first time, as saying: "I put the combined family wealth of David and Samantha Cameron at £30 million plus. Both sides of the family are extremely wealthy."[226] Another estimate is £3.2 million, though this figure excludes the million-pound legacies Cameron is expected to inherit from both sides of his family.[227][228]
In early May 2008, David Cameron decided to enroll his daughter Nancy at a State school. The Camerons had been attending its associated church,[229] which is near the Cameron family home in North Kensington, for three years.[230] Cameron's constituency home is in Dean, Oxfordshire, and the Camerons are key members of the Chipping Norton set. [231]
On 8 September 2010 it was announced that Cameron would miss Prime Minister's Questions in order to fly to southern France to see his father, Ian Cameron, who had suffered a stroke with coronary complications. Later that day, with David and other family members at his bedside, Ian died.[232][233] On 17 September 2010, Cameron attended a private ceremony for the funeral of his father in Berkshire, which prevented him from hearing the address of The Pope to Westminster Hall, an occasion he would otherwise have attended.[234]
Cameron supports Aston Villa Football Club.[235] He also owns a cat, Larry, who lives at 10 Downing Street.[236]
Cycling[link]
He regularly uses his bicycle to commute to work. In early 2006 he was photographed cycling to work followed by his driver in a car carrying his belongings. His Conservative Party spokesperson subsequently said that this was a regular arrangement for Cameron at the time.[237] Cameron's bicycle was stolen in May 2009 while he was shopping. It was recovered with the aid of The Sunday Mirror.[238] His bicycle has since been stolen again from near his house.[239] He is an occasional jogger and has raised funds for charities by taking part in the Oxford 5K and the Great Brook Run.[240][241]
Faith[link]
Speaking of his religious beliefs, Cameron has said: "I've a sort of fairly classic Church of England faith".[242] He states that his politics "is not faith-driven", adding: "I am a Christian, I go to church, I believe in God, but I do not have a direct line."[243] On religious faith in general he has said: "I do think that organised religion can get things wrong but the Church of England and the other churches do play a very important role in society."[242]
Questioned as to whether his faith had ever been tested, Cameron spoke of the birth of his severely disabled eldest son, saying: "You ask yourself, 'If there is a God, why can anything like this happen?'" He went on to state that in some ways the experience had "strengthened" his beliefs.[243]
Styles[link]
- David Cameron Esq (1966–2001)
- David Cameron Esq MP (2001–2005)
- The Rt Hon David Cameron MP (2005–)
Ancestry[link]
Among Cameron's ancestors is King William IV, who is his 5-times great-grandfather through an illegitimate daughter who was the mother of Agnes Duff, Countess Fife, who is shown in the ancestry chart below.[citation needed]
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Further reading[link]
- Matt Beech and Simon Lee. The Cameron-Clegg Government: Coalition Politics in an Age of Austerity (2011)
- Timothy Heppell and David Seawright, eds. Cameron and the Conservatives: The Transition to Coalition Government (Palgrave Macmillan; 2012) 268 pages
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| Name | Cameron, David |
| Alternative names | The Right Honourable David Cameron MP |
| Short description | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 9 October 1966 |
| Place of birth | Oxfordshire, England |
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 Murdoch at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival Vanity Fair party |
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| Born | Keith Rupert Murdoch (1931-03-11) 11 March 1931 (age 81) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Nationality | United States |
| Citizenship | United States (naturalised 1985) |
| Occupation | Chairman and CEO of News Corporation |
| Net worth |  US$ 8.3 billion (2012)[1] |
| Religion | Christian |
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Patricia Booker (m. 1956–1967) «start: (1956)–end+1: (1968)»"Marriage: Patricia Booker to Rupert Murdoch" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Rupert_Murdoch) (divorced) |
| Children | Prudence Murdoch (b. 1958)[2] Elisabeth Murdoch (b. 1968)[2] Lachlan Murdoch (b. 1971)[2] James Murdoch (b. 1972)[2] Grace Murdoch (b. 2001)[3] Chloe Murdoch (b. 2003)[2] |
| Parents | Keith Murdoch (1885–1952) Elisabeth Joy (née Greene, b. 1909) |
| Relatives | Matthew Freud (son-in-law) Sarah Murdoch (daughter-in-law) |
| Awards | Companion of the Order of Australia (1984).[4] |
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a Australian citizenship lost in 1985 (under S17 of Australian Citizenship Act 1948) with acquisition of US nationality
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Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian American media mogul. Murdoch became managing director of Australia's News Limited, inherited from his father, in 1952.[3][5] He is the founder, Chairman and CEO of global media holding company the News Corporation, the world's second-largest media conglomerate.[6][7][8][9]
In the 1950s and '60s, he acquired various newspapers in Australia and New Zealand, before expanding into the United Kingdom in 1969, taking over the News of the World followed closely by The Sun. He moved to New York in 1974 to expand into the US market and became a naturalised US citizen in 1985.[5] In 1981, he bought The Times, his first British broadsheet.
In 1986, keen to adopt newer electronic publishing technologies, he consolidated his UK printing operations in Wapping, causing bitter industrial disputes. His News Corporation acquired Twentieth Century Fox (1985), HarperCollins (1989)[10] and The Wall Street Journal (2007). He formed BSkyB in 1990 and during the 1990s expanded into Asian networks and South American television. By 2000 Murdoch's News Corporation owned over 800 companies in more than 50 countries with a net worth of over $5 billion.
In July 2011 Murdoch faced allegations that his companies, including the News of the World, owned by News Corporation, had been regularly hacking the phones of celebrities, royalty and public citizens. He faces police and government investigations into bribery and corruption by the British government and FBI investigations in the US.[11][12]
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Early life[link]
Murdoch was born in Melbourne, the only son of Sir Keith Murdoch (1885–1952) and Elisabeth Greene (born 1909). He has English, Irish and Scottish ancestry. His parents were both born in Melbourne. Keith Murdoch was a renowned war correspondent and later a regional newspaper magnate.[5] He asked for a rendezvous after seeing her debutante photograph in one of his own newspapers and they married in 1928, when she was aged 19 and he 23 years her senior.[13] In addition to Rupert, the couple had three daughters: Janet Calvert-Jones, Anne Kantor and Helen Handbury (1929–2004).
Murdoch attended Geelong Grammar School,[14] where he had his first experience of editing a publication, being co-editor of the school's official journal The Corian and editor of the student journal If Revived.[15][16] He also took his School's cricket team to the National Junior Finals. He worked part time at the Melbourne Herald and was groomed by his father from an early age to take over the family business.[3][5] Murdoch read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Worcester College, Oxford University in England, where he supported the Labour Party[3] and managed Oxford Student Publications Limited, the publishing house of Cherwell Newspaper.[17] After her husband's death from cancer in 1952, Elisabeth Murdoch went on to invest herself in charity work, as life governor of the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne and establishing the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. At 102 (in 2011) she had 74 descendants.[13] Murdoch completed an MA before working as a sub-editor with the Daily Express for two years.[5]
Activities in Australia and New Zealand[link]
Following his father's death, when he was 21, Murdoch returned from Oxford to take charge of the family business News Limited, which had been established in 1923. Rupert Murdoch turned its newspaper, Adelaide News, its main asset, into a major success.[3] He began to direct his attention to acquisition and expansion, buying the troubled Sunday Times in Perth, Western Australia (1956) and over the next few years acquiring suburban and provincial newspapers in New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and the Northern Territory, including the Sydney afternoon tabloid, The Daily Mirror (1960). The Economist describes Murdoch as "inventing the modern tabloid",[18] as he developed a pattern for his newspapers, increasing sports and scandal coverage and adopting eye-catching headlines.[5]
Murdoch's first foray outside Australia involved the purchase of a controlling interest in the New Zealand daily The Dominion. In January 1964, while touring New Zealand with friends in a rented Morris Minor after sailing across the Tasman, Murdoch read of a takeover bid for the Wellington paper by the British-based Canadian newspaper magnate, Lord Thomson of Fleet. On the spur of the moment, he launched a counter-bid. A four-way battle for control ensued in which the 32-year-old Murdoch was ultimately successful.[19] Later in 1964, Murdoch launched The Australian, Australia's first national daily newspaper, and its first broadsheet, which was based first in Canberra and later in Sydney.[3][20] In 1972, Murdoch acquired the Sydney morning tabloid The Daily Telegraph from Australian media mogul Sir Frank Packer, who later regretted selling it to him.[21] In 1984, Murdoch was appointed Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for services to publishing.[22]
In 1999, Murdoch significantly expanded his music holdings in Australia by acquiring the controlling share in a leading Australian independent label, Michael Gudinski's Mushroom Records; he merged that with Festival Records, and the result was Festival Mushroom Records (FMR). Both Festival and FMR were managed by Murdoch's son James Murdoch for several years.[23]
Political activities in Australia[link]
Murdoch found a political ally in John McEwen, leader of the Australian Country Party (now known as the National Party of Australia), who was governing in coalition with the larger Menzies-Holt Liberal Party. From the very first issue of The Australian Murdoch began taking McEwen's side in every issue that divided the long-serving coalition partners. (The Australian, 15 July 1964, first edition, front page: "Strain in Cabinet, Liberal-CP row flares.") It was an issue that threatened to split the coalition government and open the way for the stronger Australian Labor Party to dominate Australian politics. It was the beginning of a long campaign that served McEwen well.[24]
After McEwen and Menzies retired, Murdoch threw his growing power behind the Australian Labor Party under the leadership of Gough Whitlam and duly saw it elected[25] on a social platform that included universal free health care, free education for all Australians to tertiary level, recognition of the People's Republic of China, and public ownership of Australia's oil, gas and mineral resources. Rupert Murdoch's backing of Whitlam turned out to be brief. Murdoch had already started his short-lived National Star[24] newspaper in America, and was seeking to strengthen his political contacts there.[26]
Asked about the Australian federal election, 2007 at News Corporation's annual general meeting in New York on 19 October 2007, its chairman Rupert Murdoch said, "I am not commenting on anything to do with Australian politics. I'm sorry. I always get into trouble when I do that." Pressed as to whether he believed Prime Minister John Howard should be re-elected, he said: "I have nothing further to say. I'm sorry. Read our editorials in the papers. It'll be the journalists who decide that – the editors."[27] In 2009, in response to accusations by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd that News Limited was running vendettas against him and his government, Murdoch opined that Rudd was "oversensitive"[28] Murdoch described Howard's successor, Labor Party Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, as "...more ambitious to lead the world [in tackling climate change] than to lead Australia..." and criticised Rudd's expansionary fiscal policies in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008 as unnecessary.[29] Although News Limited's interests are extensive, also including the Daily Telegraph, the Courier-Mail and the Adelaide Advertiser, it was suggested by the commentator Mungo MacCallum in The Monthly that "the anti-Rudd push, if coordinated at all, was almost certainly locally driven" as opposed to being directed by Murdoch, who also took a different position from local editors on such matters as climate change and stimulus packages to combat the financial crisis.[30]
Activities in Britain[link]
Business activities in Britain[link]
In 1968 Murdoch entered the UK newspaper market with his acquisition of the populist News of the World, followed in 1969 with the purchase of the struggling daily broadsheet The Sun from IPC.[31] Murdoch turned The Sun into a tabloid format and reduced costs by using the same printing press for both newspapers. In 1997 The Sun attracted 10 million daily readers.[5] In 1981, Murdoch acquired the struggling Times and Sunday Times from Canadian newspaper publisher Lord Thomson of Fleet.[31] Ownership of The Times came to him through his relationship with Lord Thomson, who had grown tired of losing money on it as a result of much industrial action that stopped publication.[32] In the light of success and expansion at The Sun the owners believed that Murdoch could turn the papers around. Harold Evans, Editor of the Sunday Times from 1967, was made head of the daily Times, though he stayed only a year amid editorial conflict with Murdoch.[33][34]
During the 1980s and early 1990s, Murdoch's publications were generally supportive of Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.[35] At the end of the Thatcher/Major era, Murdoch switched his support to the Labour Party and its leader, Tony Blair. The closeness of his relationship with Blair and their secret meetings to discuss national policies was to become a political issue in Britain.[36] Though this later started to change, with The Sun publicly renouncing the ruling Labour government and lending its support to David Cameron's Conservative Party in the English editions, which soon after came to form a coalition government. In Scotland, where the Tories had yet to recover from their complete annihilation in 1997, the paper began to endorse the Scottish National Party (though not yet its flagship policy of independence), which soon after came to form the first ever outright majority in the proportionally elected Scottish Parliament. Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown's official spokesman said in November 2009 that Brown and Murdoch "were in regular communication" and that "there is nothing unusual in the prime minister talking to Rupert Murdoch".[37]
In 1986, Murdoch introduced electronic production processes to his newspapers in Australia, Britain and the United States. The greater degree of automation led to significant reductions in the number of employees involved in the printing process. In England, the move roused the anger of the print unions, resulting in a long and often violent dispute that played out in Wapping, one of London's docklands areas, where Murdoch had installed the very latest electronic newspaper purpose-built publishing facility in an old warehouse.[38] The bitter dispute at Wapping started with the dismissal of 6,000 employees who had gone on strike and resulted in street battles and demonstrations. Many on the political left in Britain alleged the collusion of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government with Murdoch in the Wapping affair, as a way of damaging the British trade union movement.[39][40][41] In 1987, the dismissed workers accepted a settlement of £60 million.[5]
Murdoch's British-based satellite network, Sky Television, incurred massive losses in its early years of operation. As with many of his other business interests, Sky was heavily subsidised by the profits generated by his other holdings, but convinced rival satellite operator British Satellite Broadcasting to accept a merger on his terms in 1990.[5] They were quick to see the advantages of direct to home (DTH) satellite broadcasting that did not require costly cable networks and the merged company, BSkyB, has dominated the British pay-TV market ever since.[42] By 1996, BSkyB had more than 3.6 million subscribers, triple the number of cable customers in the UK.[5] British financier Lord Jacob Rothschild, a close Murdoch friend since the 1960's, served as deputy chairman of Murdoch's BSkyB corporation from 2003–2007, and Murdoch jointly invested with Rothschild in a 5.5 percent stake in Genie Oil and Gas, which did shale gas and oil exploration in Israel.[43]
In response to print media's decline and the increasing influence of online journalism during the 2000s, Murdoch proclaimed his support of the micropayments model for obtaining revenue from on-line news,[44] although this has been criticised by some.[45]
News Corporation has subsidiaries in the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, the Channel Islands and the Virgin Islands. From 1986, News Corporation's annual tax bill averaged around seven percent of its profits.[46]
Political activities in Britain[link]
In Britain, in the 1980s, Murdoch formed a close alliance with Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher, and The Sun credited itself with helping her successor John Major to win an unexpected election victory in the 1992 general election, which had been expected to end in a hung parliament or a narrow win for Neil Kinnock's Labour.[47] In the general elections of 1997, 2001 and 2005, Murdoch's papers were either neutral or supported Labour under Tony Blair. This has led some critics to argue that Murdoch simply supports the incumbent parties (or those who seem most likely to win an upcoming election) in the hope of influencing government decisions that may affect his businesses.
The Labour Party, from when Tony Blair became leader in 1994, had moved from the Left to a more central position on many economic issues prior to 1997. Murdoch identifies himself as a libertarian, saying "What does libertarian mean? As much individual responsibility as possible, as little government as possible, as few rules as possible. But I'm not saying it should be taken to the absolute limit."[48]
In a speech delivered in New York, Rupert Murdoch said that the British Prime Minister Tony Blair described the BBC coverage of the Hurricane Katrina disaster as being full of hatred of America.[49]
In 1998, Rupert Murdoch made an attempt to buy the football club Manchester United F.C.,[50] with an offer of £625 million, but this failed. It was the largest amount ever offered for a sports club. It was blocked by the United Kingdom's Competition Commission, which stated that the acquisition would have "hurt competition in the broadcast industry and the quality of British football".
On 28 June 2006 the BBC reported that Murdoch and News Corporation were considering backing new Conservative leader David Cameron at the next General Election – still up to four years away.[51] In a later interview in July 2006, when he was asked what he thought of the Conservative leader, Murdoch replied "Not much".[52] In a 2009 blog, it was suggested that in the aftermath of the News of the World phone hacking scandal which is still ongoing in 2012 and might yet have Transatlantic implications[53] Murdoch and News Corporation might have decided to back Cameron.[54] Despite this, there had already been a convergence of interests between the two men over the muting of Britain's communications regulator Ofcom.[55]
In 2006, Britain's Independent newspaper reported that Murdoch would offer Tony Blair a senior role in his global media company News Corporation when the prime minister stood down from office.[56]
He is accused by former Solidarity MSP Tommy Sheridan of having a personal vendetta against him and of conspiring with MI5 to produce a video of him confessing to having affairs – allegations over which Sheridan had previously sued News International and won.[57] On being arrested for perjury following the case, Sheridan claimed that the charges were "orchestrated and influenced by the powerful reach of the Murdoch empire".[58]
In August 2008, British Conservative leader and future Prime Minister David Cameron accepted free flights to hold private talks and attend private parties with Murdoch on his yacht, the Rosehearty.[59] Cameron has declared in the Commons register of interests he accepted a private plane provided by Murdoch's son-in-law, public relations guru Matthew Freud; Cameron has not revealed his talks with Murdoch. The gift of travel in Freud's Gulfstream IV private jet was valued at around £30,000. Other guests attending the "social events" included the then EU trade commissioner Lord Mandelson, the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and co-chairman of NBC Universal Ben Silverman. The Conservatives have not disclosed what was discussed.[60]
In July 2011 it emerged that Cameron met key executives of Murdoch's News Corporation 26 times during the 14 months that Cameron had served as Prime Minister.[61] It was also reported that Murdoch had given Cameron a personal guarantee that there would be no risk attached to hiring Andy Coulson, the former editor of News of the World, as the Conservative Party's communication director in 2007.[62] This was in spite of Coulson having resigned as editor over phone hacking by a reporter. Cameron chose to take Murdoch's advice, despite warnings from Nick Clegg, Lord Ashdown and The Guardian.[63] Coulson resigned his post in 2011 and was later arrested and questioned on allegations of further criminal activity at The News of the World, specifically the News International phone hacking scandal.
News International phone hacking scandal[link]
Main article: News International phone hacking scandal
In July 2011 Rupert Murdoch along with his son James gave testimony before a British parliamentary committee regarding phone hacking. In the U.K his media empire remains under fire as investigators continue to probe reports of other phone hacking.[64]
On 14 July, the Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the House of Commons served a summons on Murdoch, his son James, and his former CEO Rebekah Brooks to testify before a committee on 19 July.[65] After an initial refusal, the Murdochs confirmed they would attend after the committee issued them a summons to Parliament.[66] The day before the committee, the website of the News Corporation publication The Sun was hacked, and a false story was posted on the front page claiming that Murdoch had died.[67] Murdoch described the day of the committee "the most humble day of my life". He argued that since he ran a global business of 53,000 employees and that the News of the World was "just 1%" of this, he was not ultimately responsible for what went on at the tabloid. He added that he had not considered resigning,[68] and that he and the other top executives had been completely unaware of the hacking.[69][70]
On 15 July Rupert Murdoch attended a private meeting in London with the family of Milly Dowler, where he personally apologised for the hacking of their murdered daughter's voicemail by a company he owns.[71][72] On 16 and 17 July, News International published two full-page apologies in many of Britain's national newspapers. The first apology took the form of a letter, signed by Rupert Murdoch, in which he said sorry for the "serious wrongdoing" that occurred. The second was titled "Putting right what's gone wrong", and gave more detail about the steps News International was taking to address the public's concerns.[72] In the wake of the allegations Murdoch accepted the resignations of Rebekah Brooks, head of Murdoch's British operations, and Les Hinton, head of Dow Jones who was chairman of Murdoch's British newspaper division when some of the abuses happened. They both deny any knowledge of any wrong-doing under their command.[73]
On 27 February 2012, the following day after Murdoch's controversial release of the Sun on Sunday, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers informed the Leveson Inquiry that Police are investigating a "network of corrupt officials" as part of their inquiries into phone hacking and police corruption. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers told the Leveson Inquiry that evidence suggested a "culture of illegal payments" at the Sun newspaper and that these payments allegedly made by the Sun were authorised at a senior level.[74]
In testimony on 25 April 2012, Murdoch did not deny the quote attributed to him by his former editor of The Sunday Times, Harold Evans: "I give instructions to my editors all round the world, why shouldn't I in London?"[75][76] On 1 May 2012, the Culture, Media and Sport Committee issued a report stating that Murdoch was "not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company".[77][78]
Activities in the United States[link]
Murdoch made his first acquisition in the United States in 1973, when he purchased the San Antonio Express-News. Soon afterwards, he founded Star, a supermarket tabloid, and in 1976, he purchased the New York Post.[5] On 4 September 1985, Murdoch became a naturalised citizen to satisfy the legal requirement that only US citizens were permitted to own American television stations. This resulted in Murdoch losing his Australian citizenship.[79][80]
Marvin Davis sold Marc Rich's interest in 20th Century Fox to Murdoch for $250 million in March 1984. Davis later backed out of a deal with Murdoch to purchase John Kluge's Metromedia television stations.[81] Murdoch went alone and bought the stations, and later bought out Davis' remaining stake in Fox for $325 million.[81] The six television stations owned by Metromedia would form the nucleus of the Fox Broadcasting Company, founded on 9 October 1986, which would go on to have great success with programmes such as The Simpsons and The X-Files.[5]
In 1987 in Australia, he bought The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, the company that his father had once managed. By 1990 News Corporation had built up debts of $7 billion (much from Sky TV in the UK).[5] forcing Murdoch to sell many of the American magazine interests he had acquired in the mid-1980s. In 1993, it took exclusive coverage of the National Football League (NFL) from CBS and increased programming to seven days a week.[82] In 1995, Murdoch's Fox Network became the object of scrutiny from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), when it was alleged that News Ltd.'s Australian base made Murdoch's ownership of Fox illegal. However, the FCC ruled in Murdoch's favour, stating that his ownership of Fox was in the best interests of the public. That same year, Murdoch announced a deal with MCI Communications to develop a major news website and magazine, The Weekly Standard. Also that year, News Corporation launched the Foxtel pay television network in Australia in partnership with Telstra. In 1996, Murdoch decided to enter the cable news market with the Fox News Channel, a 24-hour cable news station. Ratings studies released in 2009 showed that the network was responsible for nine of the top ten programs in the "Cable News" category at that time.[83] Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner (founder and former owner of CNN) are long-standing rivals.[84] In late 2003, Murdoch acquired a 34 percent stake in Hughes Electronics, the operator of the largest American satellite TV system, DirecTV, from General Motors for $6 billion (USD).[22] His Fox movie studio would go on to have global hits with Titanic and Avatar.[85]
In 2004, Murdoch announced that he was moving News Corporation headquarters from Adelaide, Australia to the United States. Choosing a US domicile was designed to ensure that American fund managers could purchase shares in the company, since many were deciding not to buy shares in non-US companies. Some analysts believed that News Corporation's Australian domicile was leading to the company being undervalued compared with its peers.
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On 20 July 2005, News Corporation bought Intermix Media Inc., which held Myspace, Imagine Games Network and other social networking-themed websites, for $580 million USD, making Murdoch a major player in online media concerns.[86] In June 2011, it sold off Myspace for US$35 million.[87] On 11 September 2005, News Corporation announced that it would buy IGN Entertainment for $650 million (USD).[88]
In May 2007, Murdoch made a $5 billion offer to purchase Dow Jones. At the time, the Bancroft family, who had owned the Dow Jones for 105 years and controlled 64% of the shares at the time, firmly declined the offer, opposing Murdoch's much-used strategy of slashing employee numbers and gutting existing systems. Later, the Bancroft family confirmed a willingness to consider a sale. Besides Murdoch, the Associated Press reported that supermarket magnate Ron Burkle and Internet entrepreneur Brad Greenspan were among the other interested parties.[89] In 2007, Murdoch acquired Dow Jones,[90][91] which gave him such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Barron's Magazine, the Far Eastern Economic Review (based in Hong Kong) and SmartMoney.[92]
Political activities in the United States[link]
McNight (2010) identifies four characteristics of his media operations: free market ideology; unified positions on matters of public policy; global editorial meetings; and opposition to a perceived liberal bias in other public media.[93]
On 8 May 2006, the Financial Times reported that Murdoch would be hosting a fund-raiser for Senator Hillary Clinton's (D-New York) Senate re-election campaign.[94] In a 2008 interview with Walt Mossberg, Murdoch was asked whether he had "anything to do with the New York Post's endorsement of Barack Obama in the democratic primaries." Without hesitating, Murdoch replied, "Yeah. He is a rock star. It's fantastic. I love what he is saying about education. I don't think he will win Florida... but he will win in Ohio and the election. I am anxious to meet him. I want to see if he will walk the walk."[95][96] Murdoch is a strong supporter of Israel and its domestic policies.[97]
In 2010 News Corporation gave $1 million to the Republican Governors Association and $1 million to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.[98][99][100]
Murdoch also served on the board of directors of the libertarian Cato Institute.[101] He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[102]
Murdoch is also a supporter of the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect Intellectual Property Act.[103]
Murdoch is a supporter of more open immigration policies in western nations generally.[104] In the United States, Murdoch and chief executives from several major corporations including Hewlett-Packard, Boeing and Disney joined New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to form the Partnership for a New American Economy to advocate "for immigration reform – including a path to legal status for all undocumented immigrants now in the United States."[105] The coalition, reflecting Murdoch and Bloomberg's own views, also advocates significant increases in legal immigration to the United States as a means of boosting America's sluggish economny and lowering unemployment. The Partnership for a New American Economy's immigration policy prescriptions are notably similar to those favoured by the libertarian Cato Institute and the Chamber of Commerce-both of which Murdoch has supported in the past.[106] The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page as well has long advocated increased legal immigration to the United States both before and after News Corporation's acquisition of the paper in 2007. This contrasts with the staunch anti-immigration stance of Murdoch's British newspaper, The Sun.[107]
On 5 September 2010, Murdoch testified before the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law Membership on the “Role of Immigration in Strengthening America’s Economy.” In his testimony, Murdoch called for ending mass deportations and endorsed a "comprehensive immigration reform" plan that would include a pathway to citizenship for all illegal immigrants.[105]
Activities in Europe[link]
Murdoch owns controlling interest in Sky Italia, a satellite television provider in Italy.[108] Murdoch's business interests in Italy have been a source of contention since they began.[108] In 2010 Murdoch won a media dispute with then Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. A judge ruled the then Prime Minister's media arm Mediaset prevented News Corporation's Italian unit, Sky Italia, from buying advertisements on its television networks.[109]
Activities in Asia[link]
In 1993, Murdoch acquired Star TV, a Hong Kong company founded by Richard Li[110] for $1 billion (Souchou, 2000:28), and subsequently set up offices for it throughout Asia. The deal enables News International to broadcast from Hong Kong to India, China, Japan and over thirty other countries in Asia, becoming one of the biggest satellite TV networks in the east.[5] However, the deal did not work out as Murdoch had planned, because the Chinese government placed restrictions on it that prevented it from reaching most of China.
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Marriages[link]
In 1956 Murdoch married Patricia Booker, a former shop assistant and flight attendant from Melbourne and they had their first child, Prudence, in 1958.[111][112] Rupert and Patricia Murdoch divorced in 1967.[2] In 1967 Murdoch married Anna Maria Torv (Tõrv),[111] a Scottish-born cadet journalist working for his Sydney newspaper The Daily Telegraph (not to be mistaken for the actress Anna Torv of Fringe who is the elder Torv's niece).[2] During his marriage to Torv, a Roman Catholic, Murdoch was made a Knight of the Order of Saint Gregory the Great (KSG), a papal honour awarded by Pope John Paul II.[113] Torv and Murdoch had three children: Elisabeth Murdoch (born in Sydney, Australia on 22 August 1968), Lachlan Murdoch (born in London, UK on 8 September 1971), and James Murdoch, (born in London on 13 December 1972).[111][112] Murdoch's companies published two novels by his then wife: Family Business (1988) and Coming to Terms (1991), both widely regarded[114] as vanity publications. They divorced in June 1999. Anna Murdoch received a settlement of US$ 1.2 billion in assets.[115]
On 25 June 1999, 17 days after divorcing his second wife, Murdoch, then aged 68, married Chinese-born Deng Wendi (Wendi Deng).[116] She was 30, a recent Yale School of Management graduate, and a newly appointed vice-president of his STAR TV. Murdoch has two children with her.
Children[link]
Murdoch has six children.[117] His eldest child, Prudence MacLeod, was appointed on 28 January 2011 to the board of Times Newspapers Ltd, part of News International, which publishes The Times and The Sunday Times.[118] Murdoch's eldest son Lachlan, formerly the deputy chief operating officer at the News Corporation and the publisher of the New York Post, was Murdoch's heir apparent before resigning from his executive posts at the global media company at the end of July 2005.[117] Lachlan's departure left James Murdoch chief executive of the satellite television service British Sky Broadcasting since November 2003, as the only Murdoch son still directly involved with the company's operations, though Lachlan has agreed to remain on the News Corporation's board.[119]
After graduating from Vassar College[120] and marrying classmate Elkin Kwesi Pianim (the son of Ghanaian financial and political mogul Kwame Pianim) in 1993,[120] Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth, along with her husband, purchased a pair of NBC-affiliate television stations in California, KSBW and KSBY, with a $35 million loan provided by her father. By quickly re-organising and re-selling them at a $12 million profit in 1995, Elisabeth emerged as an unexpected rival to her brothers for the eventual leadership of the publishing dynasty's empire. But after divorcing her first husband in 1998 and quarrelling publicly with her assigned mentor Sam Chisholm at BSkyB, she struck out on her own as a television and film producer in London. She has since enjoyed independent success, in conjunction with her second husband, Matthew Freud, the great-grandson of Sigmund Freud (the founder of psychoanalysis) whom she met in 1997 and married in 2001.[120]
It is not known how long Murdoch will remain as News Corporation's CEO. For a while the American cable television entrepreneur John Malone was the second-largest voting shareholder in News Corporation after Murdoch himself, potentially undermining the family's control. In 2007, the company announced that it would sell certain assets and give cash to Malone's company in exchange for its stock. In 2007, the company issued Murdoch's older children voting stock.[citation needed]
Rupert Murdoch has two children with Wendi Deng: Grace (b. New York, 19 November 2001)[3] and Chloe (b. New York, 17 July 2003).[2][112] It was revealed in September 2011 that Tony Blair is Grace's godfather.[121] There is reported to be tension between Murdoch and his oldest children over the terms of a trust holding the family's 28.5 percent stake in News Corporation, estimated in 2005 to be worth about $6.1 billion. Under the trust, his children by Wendi Deng share in the proceeds of the stock but have no voting privileges or control of the stock. Voting rights in the stock are divided 50/50 between Murdoch on the one side and his children of his first two marriages. Murdoch's voting privileges are not transferable but will expire upon his death and the stock will then be controlled solely by his children from the prior marriages, although their half-siblings will continue to derive their share of income from it. It is Murdoch's stated desire to have his children by Deng given a measure of control over the stock proportional to their financial interest in it (which would mean, if Murdoch dies while at least one of the children is a minor, that Deng would exercise that control). It does not appear that he has any strong legal grounds to contest the present arrangement, and both ex-wife Anna and their three children are said to be strongly resistant to any such change.[122]
Portrayal on television, in film, books and music[link]
Murdoch and rival newspaper and publishing magnate Robert Maxwell are thinly fictionalised as "Keith Townsend" and "Richard Armstrong" in The Fourth Estate by British novelist and former MP Jeffrey Archer.[123]
Murdoch has been portrayed by Barry Humphries in the 1991 mini-series Selling Hitler, Hugh Laurie in a parody of It's a Wonderful Life in the television show A Bit of Fry & Laurie, Ben Mendelsohn in the film Black and White, Paul Elder in The Late Shift and by himself on The Simpsons, first in "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" and later in "Judge Me Tender".
It has been speculated that the character of Elliot Carver, the global media magnate and main villain in the 1997 James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies, is based on Murdoch. The writer of the film, Bruce Feirstein, has stated that Carver was actually inspired by British press magnate Robert Maxwell, who was one of Murdoch's rivals.[124]
Since both Rupert Murdoch and Robert Maxwell had the same initials they were often confused by the public. This confusion was exploited by the writers of the British situation comedy 'Drop the Dead Donkey' which was set in a TV newsroom who chose to name the fictional proprietor Sir Roysten Merchant (initials RM). The writers state on their DVD commentares that it was "fortunate" for them that the two men shared the same initials.
In the 1997 film Fierce Creatures, the head of Octopus Inc. Rod McCain (initials R.M.) character is likely modelled after Murdoch.[125]
In 1999, the Ted Turner owned TBS aired an original sitcom, The Chimp Channel. This featured an all-simian cast and the role of an Australian TV veteran named Harry Waller. The character is described as "a self-made gazillionaire with business interests in all sorts of fields. He owns newspapers, hotel chains, sports franchises and genetic technologies, as well as everyone's favourite cable TV channel, The Chimp Channel." Waller is thought to be a parody of Murdoch, a long-time rival of Turner's.[126]
In 2004, the movie Outfoxed included many interviews accusing Fox News of pressuring reporters to report only one side of news stories, in order to influence viewers' political opinions.[127]
In 2012, the satirical show Hacks, broadcast on UK-based Channel 4, made obvious comparisons with Rupert Murdoch using the fictional character 'Stanhope Feast', as well as other central figures in the phone hacking scandal[128]
Influence, wealth and reputation[link]
Murdoch's reputation and influence have been noted, both positively and negatively
According to the 2011 list of Forbes richest Americans, Murdoch is the 38th richest person in the US and the 106th-richest person in the world, with a net worth of $8.3 billion.[1]
Murdoch has been listed three times in the Time 100 as among the most influential people in the world. In May 2012, Forbes ranked him as the 24th most powerful person in the world.[129]
In connection with Murdoch's testimony to the Leveson Inquiry "into the ethics of the British press", editor of Newsweek International, Tunku Varadarajan, referred to him as "the man whose name is synonymous with unethical newspapers".[130]
See also[link]
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- List of assets owned by News Corporation
- News International phone hacking scandal
- Phone hacking scandal reference lists
- Metropolitan police role in phone hacking scandal
- Phone hacking scandal comparisons with Watergate
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- Evans, Harold. Good Times, Bad Times, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983
- Harcourt, Alison (2006). European Union Institutions and the Regulation of Media Markets. London, New York: Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-6644-1.
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- Page, Bruce (2003). The Murdoch Archipelago. Simon and Schuster UK.
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