Call it a professional hunch, but I suspect the Tories won’t be too pleased that
this Guardian story has come out on the first day of their conference. It’s about Andy Coulson –
and, much like the revelations in the New York Times Magazine last month, features one
of his former colleagues alleging that Coulson knew all about the telephonic subterfuge going on at the News of the World. That journalist tells Channel 4’s Dispatches that:
It’s evocative stuff, but – as before – I imagine it’s also unprovable. In which case, the Tories will probably just ignore it. But regardless of the truth of it all, this is still hugely awkward for the Coulson and his Downing Street colleagues.“Sometimes, they would say: ‘We’ve got a recording’ and Andy would say: ‘OK, bring it into my office and play it to me’ or ‘Bring me, email me a transcript of it.'”
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