Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks must (be"frogmarched"&) give evidence, says (Deputy PM) Nick Clegg

Source: The Guardian

Deputy PM says senior News International executives should be 'frogmarched' to face MPs' questions over phone hacking if they refuse to go of their own accord

Hélène Mulholland, political reporter | Thursday 1July 4 2011 10.20 BST

Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, has accused Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks of exercising power without responsibility, and suggested the senior executives should be "frogmarched" to face a select committee if they refuse to go of their own accord.

Clegg also said that it "cannot be right" that a number of journalists and people working in the News of the World office lost their jobs as a result of the phone hacking scandal while "people higher up the food chain took no responsibility or accountability for what happened".

Speaking in an interview ahead of a speech on Thursday morning in which he will seek to "start the debate" on what the public wants to see emerge from the phone hacking scandal, Clegg also revealed that he tried to raise his concerns with David Cameron about the appointment of Andy Coulson as director of communications during coalition negotiations last May.

"I recognised that then and recognise it now, it was his appointment and his appointment alone," he told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jul/14/rupert-murdoch-rebekah-brooks-must-give-evidence-clegg

I would enjoy hearing a US pol say that.

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