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Hacking: What are the polls going to say?

Hacking: What are the polls going to say?

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Is the public as concerned as Westminster thinks it is? I’m hoping that we’ll see the first polls this evening on public reaction to the latest hacking allegations. There should be at least one and possibly two surveys which have been in the field yesterday and today. An interesting dimension is whether the News International daily poll, which is carried by the Sun and the Sunday Times, included any questions. The Sun, of course, has been one of a number…

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Is the BSkyB take-over now less likely?

Is the BSkyB take-over now less likely?

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Has David Davis got this one right? Cameron did well at PMQs in answering Miliband’s points on a public inquiry into the hacking scandal but he was less at ease when pressed over the News International big take over all of BSkyB. On the face of it the decision this is all going ahead. The decision to allow the deal was taken by the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, three months ago and the process is near to completion. But as…

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Where’s the phone-hacking story going to go?

Where’s the phone-hacking story going to go?

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Could the 7/7 victims have been targeted as well? Thanks to Marf for her take on the developing phone-hacking story which seems to get wider and wider. SkyNews has been reporting overnight that the father of a 7/7 victim says he’s been told by the police that they’d discovered a file with his phone number and address in it during their investigations into the affair. This comes on top of the reports that the parents of murdered Soham girls were…

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