What's not to love about a good British dust up?
David Cameron texted Rebekah Brooks in the week she quit as News International's
chief executive over the phone-hacking scandal to tell her to keep her
head up, it has been claimed in an updated biography of the prime
minister.
In a sign of his closeness to some of the most
controversial News International chiefs, Cameron told Brooks that she
would get through her difficulties, just days before she stood down.
It
has also emerged that he agreed to meet her at a point-to-point horse
race so long as they were not seen together, and that he also pressed
the Metropolitan police to review the Madeleine McCann case in May last
year following pressure from Brooks.
The prime minister then sent
an intermediary to Brooks to explain why contacts had to be brought to
an abrupt halt after she resigned. The authors say the gist of that
message was: "Sorry I couldn't have been as loyal to you as you have
been to me, but Ed Miliband had me on the run."
The revelation
comes in the week that Cameron's closeness to Brooks will come under
intense scrutiny when she gives evidence to the Leveson inquiry
on Friday. It is not known whether precise details of her text
exchanges will be published by the inquiry, but it is thought that at
certain points she was in repeated daily text contact.
The day
before Brooks's evidence session, the former News of the World editor
Andy Coulson will also give evidence, including how he came to be
appointed as director of communications for the Conservative party.
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