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Andy Coulson’s resignation as David Cameron’s communications chief is the latest, and almost certainly not the last, twist in a story that began in 2005. Channel 4 News looks at where it all started.
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A former colleague of Andy Coulson tells Channel 4’s Dispatches David Cameron’s communications director knew about hacking and listened to tapes when he was News of the World editor.
Gary Gibbon
The Media Select Committee has just announced Andy Coulson will be questioned in a separate session on Tuesday, probably just after Rebekah Wade. Mr Coulson’s friends say they are feeling pretty relaxed that the committee has no hard paper evidence to pin on him and won’t get far if he sticks to his line that…
Gary Gibbon
David Cameron believes that one of the high points of his leadership has been the “Flying Squad”/”Get Carter” way he dealt with Tory MPs’ expenses. He and his team believe this has won him points for “getting it” when it comes to the public distrust of politicians. Can he really afford to risk this right…
Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson is formally charged with three counts of perjury in a hearing in Scotland.
The prime minister’s former spin doctor Andy Coulson faces a retrial over charges of plotting to bribe corrupt officials while he was editor of News of the World.
David Cameron faces questions about hiring Andy Coulson, after his former spin doctor is found guilty of conspiring to hack phones while editor of News of the World.
Jurors fail to reach verdicts on two remaining charges facing the PM’s former spin doctor Andy Coulson and ex-NoW royal editor Clive Goodman, as the phone-hacking judge tells off politicians.
Gary Gibbon
There was no shortage of people advising David Cameron to drop Andy Coulson after he won the 2010 election. But Coulson followed the Tory leader into No 10.
Former No 10 spin doctor Andy Coulson is found guilty of conspiring to hack phones while he was editor of the News of the World, but ex-colleague Rebekah Brooks is cleared.
Prime Minister David Cameron apologises for employing Andy Coulson as head of communications at No 10. “I am extremely sorry that I employed him,” he says.
The former editor of the News of the World Andy Coulson has told the jury in the hacking trial he was in a relationship with Rebekah Brooks until around the time he left the newpaper.
Former editor of the News of the World Andy Coulson tells the hacking trial he was “shocked” to hear voicemails of David Blunkett “declaring his love” for a married woman.
Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson agreed to pay a private detective to “monitor” the phones of three aides to the royal family, a court is told.