Tom Brake MP is Lib Dem Home Affairs, Justice and Equalities Co-Chair.
A friend texted me over the weekend, after the news of Sir Paul Stephenson’s resignation, saying ‘What next?’. I texted back, ‘The Queen abdicates?’.
Revelations about phone-hacking and the Metropolitan police have been coming so thick and fast over the last couple of weeks that nobody would bat an eyelid (all right, I exaggerate slightly) if Her Majesty revealed a previously unknown Met and NOTW connection.
Sir Paul’s departure is just the latest extraordinary development in the phone-hacking saga.
Even though he was widely recognised as an outstanding commissioner who …