LONDON (AP) — Britain’s deputy prime minister says the tabloid phone hacking scandal has created a once-in-a-generation chance to clean up murky relations among media, police and politicians.
Nick Clegg also defended Prime Minister David Cameron at a news conference Tuesday over questions about his private discussions with executives of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.
A day earlier, Cameron told the House of Commons he had no “inappropriate” discussions about News Corp.’s bid, now dropped, to take full control of British Sky Broadcasting.
Clegg says he hoped that a wide-ranging judicial inquiry would be the vehicle to “clean up the murky practices and dodgy relationships which have taken root at the very heart of the British establishment.”
