Pressure intensified on News International this morning as David Cameron condemned the alleged hacking of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s mobile phone as a “truly dreadful act”, and Ed Miliband called on the company’s chief executive to consider her position.
Speaking in Afghanistan, where the issue was raised by journalists at a press conference on British troop withdrawals, the Prime Minister said that the allegations were appalling. “If they are true, this is a truly dreadful act and a truly dreadful situation,” said Mr Cameron.
“What I have read in the papers is quite, quite shocking, that someone could do this actually knowing that the police were trying to find [Milly] and trying to find out what had happened.” Mr Cameron referred to the Metropolitan Police’s wider investigation…