Britain's Prime Minister, David Cameron, at an emergency session in the House of Commons today, apologised for having appointed Andy Coulson as his director of communication. Coulson had to quit in January this year, after it was reported that he knew of the phone hacking by the News of the World (NoTW) while he was the tabloid's editor.

Jo Johnson, the former New Delhi-based South Asia chief of the Financial Times, now member of Parliament, told Business Standard, "The authority and scope of the inquiry demonstrates this Government's profound recognition that there has been a sustained culture of malpractice within both the tabloid press and the police, as well as its commitment to cleaning up journalism in Britain. Britain has a competitive and boisterous press, of which we should largely be proud. However, where there has been criminality, the law must be applied, and I hope this scandal will usher in a new age of ethical standards in the media." 

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