Former Lib Dem MP Evan Harris has been commenting on the BBC on the news from the High Court about the damages awarded to Prince Harry for phone hacking by the Mirror Group. Evan Harris was speaking for the Hacked Off campaign, which he founded in 2011 with, among others, Hugh Grant.
Piers Morgan has stated again today that he knew nothing about phone hacking when he was editor of the Daily Mirror and that he is a victim of “old foes with an axe to grind”. Morgan then attacked Prince Harry in the robust fashion that we have come to expect from him.
As Evan said:
Either Piers Morgan knew nothing about the way that all his scoops were obtained, which makes him the worst editor ever to have stalked the streets of Fleet Street, or, as the judge found today, he did know, he was involved in criminality and he has been lying about it ever since.
I will bring you a clip as soon as it become available, but you can watch him on BBC News on iPlayer at around 3:17pm today.
PS. Some years ago I was involved in planning a Conference fringe meeting with Hacked Off. Evan said he had arranged for Hugh Grant to attend. I suggested that we would need a larger room for the meeting. All the women agreed with me; all the men just looked puzzled.
* Mary Reid is a contributing editor on Lib Dem Voice. She was a councillor in Kingston upon Thames, where she is still very active with the local party, and is the Hon President of Kingston Lib Dems.
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Incidentally, as a citizen and certainly not as any kind of subject, I applaud Harry for his courage in sticking to his guns on this matter. Well done, young man.
(Comment edited – thanks for pointing out the ambiguity)
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Good documentary, featuring Evan, on the BBC iPlayer. Scandalous – phone hacking on trial. Link below.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001mxb5/scandalous-phone-hacking-on-trial
Good news for a decent press. How Piers Morgan can go on denying the phone hacking at his newspaper is beyond belief. The appeal court, having weighed the evidence, says that his paper DID use phone hacking. It is beyond unbelievable that the editor of the paper knew nothing about how his scoops were obtained.
Not that I ever held Piers Morgan in any esteem anyway, but his refusal to accept that he’s been caught out, suggests that not only is he a liar but a can’t accept responsibility for his own failings. It wasn’t me guv, it was someone else… Right!