Theresa May is pioneering a new approach to phone-hacking: obliterating the scandal by bombarding it with wrongdoing-seeking inquiries.
Read Ed Miliband's speech on phone-hacking in full on politics.co.uk.
Sir Paul Stephenson resigns from his role as commissioner of the Metropolitan police but says his integrity remains intact.
David Cameron, prime minister, praises Sir Paul Stephenson's role as Metropolitan police commissioner but urges that the phone-hacking investigation now proceeds quickly.
Yvette Cooper MP, Labour's shadow home secretary, questions why different rules apply to the Met police commissioner and the prime minister over phone-hacking links.
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