David Cameron’s communications chief Andy Coulson looks like he will be needing a few explanations for his boss, if not the boys in blue. He was editor of the News of the World when it turns out, thanks to a Guardian investigation, more than 100 people in public life – prominent and not so prominent – had their mobile phones hacked into by the paper’s journalists, or private investigators working for them. Mr Coulson has repeatedly insisted that he cannot recall any of his journalists breaking the law in this way – for that is what it is.
Clive Goodman, the royal correspondent who went to jail, didn’t tell his boss, according to the official version of events. Now three phone companies are making details public of other customers whose conversations were hacked and the scale makes the exercise look routine. Everybody on the paper, and their rivals, had an inkling that this was so. Except the editor.
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