Home Secretary Theresa May told MPs it is up to the police to decide whether to investigate new evidence about alleged widespread phone-hacking by News of the World journalists, but political editor Gary Gibbon says the police are unlikely to want to launch a fresh probe.
The home secretary faced a heated series of exchanges with MPs after Commons speaker John Bercow approved an urgent question put by the former Labour minister Tom Watson.
Mrs May was repeatedly asked why the government will not intervene and order the Metropolitan police phone-hacking investigation to be reopened.
She told the Commons that it is up to the police to decide if the case should be reopened and was not a decision for the government to take.
She was also asked by Mr Watson to confirm if former prime minister Tony Blair's communications had been intercepted.
Tom Watson urged the government not to join a "conspiracy" to undermine the "integrity of our democracy".
The Conservatives have missed the issue. Before they forget and follow that corrupt Labour regime into the mire, Policing in this country is done – supposedly – by consent. When politicians prevaricate like overpaid whores, they had best get educated into what they are in Westminster for. And I don’t mean ‘feathering their own nests’.
They are there to represent the best intention of the electorate, the people. Part of that representation is to ensure that the police “police” within the guidelines expected of this county’s ancient and tolerant society. Where society is now sick is of the do-gooders adding parameters that are false and based on ethereal idealism instead of the harsh realities of every day experiences.
The police do not wait for crimes to be reported before they extend the iron fist of the law, otherwise there would be no speed cameras. MI5/MI6, parts of the policing system, does not wait until our enemies are climbing the cliff at Dover before they activate their muscle in the Armed Forces. This fatuous argument put forward by the Home Secretary in a total abrogation of responsibility of duty of care towards the silent and law abiding majority within these shores.
The wholesale deterioration of the Rights of Society has now to be reclaimed irrespective of what that seemingly bumbling copper Yates in the Back Yard says. To ignore yesterday’s exchanges on the floor of the Commons is akin to watching a murderer dissect a victim and doing nothing – "because it would contaminate the evidence". It is for the Home Secretary to ensure that those agencies tasked with upholding Britain’s Ancient Laws do so without interference from others of Power with interests of their own.
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