Police look into the phone tap claims

A statement could come soon from the Met Police.

The Home Secretary has just confirmed in an interview that he’s spoken to the Met Police chief Sir Paul Stephenson, who’s assured him the police are looking at the 2006 investigation again in the light of the new allegations in The Guardian (not, presumably, that “new” to the police as they appear to have come from their own files).

When Alan Johnson’s junior minister David Hanson answered questions in the Commons on the saga, many MPs couldn’t conceal their glee that newspapers might be brought low by all this, just as MPs were brought low by the expenses saga.

Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs lined up to demand inquiries, investigations and Andy Coulson’s dismissal.

Ann Clwyd even said she didn’t feel safe wandering the corridors of Westminster knowing that Andy Coulson might be round the corner.

The Tories’ Chris Grayling had a painful outing saying the story “raised questions” and that a “measured response” was necessary. Still no word from Andy Coulson on the new allegations and whether he knew phone hacking was happening on his watch.