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The Guardian - UK
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Politics Weekly podcast: MPs demand action over News of the World hacking scandal

Allegations that the News of the World paid a private investigator to hack into the voicemail of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler caused public outrage this week. In a heated debate in the Commons MPs rose in turn to denounce the behaviour of journalists and executives at the Sunday tabloid.

In prime minister's questions Ed Miliband first called for Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International, to resign, then rounded on David Cameron for appointing former NoW editor Andy Coulson to run his communications team until earlier this year.

In the studio to discuss all of this we have Guardian columnists Julian Glover and Anne Perkins and the Observer's political editor, Toby Helm. We also hear from the Guardian journalist who first broke the story of the extent of phone-hacking at the News of the World, Nick Davies. He says that a full public inquiry is now inevitable.

With analysts now saying that the episode could be as damaging to the press as MPs' expenses was to parliament, the story appears to have some way yet to run.

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