Blair 'tried' to hush up hacking scandal

[JohnyCanuck]

as whistleblower MP told: 'Rebekah Brooks will pursue you for the rest of your life'

By Simon Walters

Tony Blair urged Gordon Brown to persuade the Labour MP who led the campaign to expose News of the World phone-hacking to back off, friends of Mr Brown said last night.

Well-placed sources said Mr Blair, who has close links with the paper’s owner Rupert Murdoch, wanted Mr Brown to get his ally Tom Watson to lay off the News International (NI) title, but Mr Brown refused.

Mr Watson’s two-year crusade played a major part in Mr Murdoch’s shock decision to close the paper after today’s edition

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Mr Blair’s attempt to persuade Mr Brown to put pressure on Mr Watson is likely to bring his links with Mr Murdoch under fresh scrutiny.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2013027/News-World-Tony-Blair-tried-hush-phone-hacking-scandal.html#ixzz1RjeXh3Sy

[no_hypocrisy]

1. It would too much to hope for that one of the hacked calls had * admitting

he lied his way into Iraq . . .

[glinda]

2. Don't you wonder why they went around deleting emails? Am sure they did it all over.

[Quantess]

3. Uh, oh...

K & R