Hugh Grant: NOTW closure is "cynical"

Friday, 8 July 2011 12:00 AM

Hugh Grant, actor, speaking on BBC Question Time last night describes the closure of the News of the World as cynical and questions why Rebekah Brooks remains in her position as News International chief executive:

"We should see this for what it is, it is a very cynical managerial manoeuvre which has put several hundred not evil people out of work and has kept the editor while Milly Dowler was being hacked in a high paid job."

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