PMQs today was a taste for David Cameron of what he will have to face over the coming
weeks as the scandal surrounding the News of the World continues to grow. Ed Miliband asked him whether he agreed that Rebekah Brooks — a friend of Cameron’s —should resign and
then mocked him when he wouldn’t answer. The Labour leader than pushed him on whether News International should be stopped from taking over BSkyB and derided him when he said the matter was
out of his hands. Finally, he slammed him for his decision to bring Andy Coulson — who had resigned as editor of the News of the World because of the phone hacking scandal — into
Downing Street.
As each blow hit, there was little the Prime Minister could do. He is penned in by his own decisions and his office, he really can’t do much about the BSkyB matter.
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