Pressure on Murdochs Mounts in Hacking Scandal

By GRAHAM BOWLEY and JO BECKER
NYT

LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain said Friday that James Murdoch still had “questions to answer” about the phone hacking scandal swirling around News International, the British arm of the media empire of his father, Rupert Murdoch, a day after the son’s testimony was called into question by two former News International executives.

Tom Watson, a Labour lawmaker who has taken a leading role in the hacking inquiries, said he was asking the police to investigate whether James Murdoch had misled a parliamentary committee in his testimony on Tuesday.

Those and other developments put renewed pressure on the Murdochs and seemed to frustrate efforts by the company and its global parent, News Corporation, to contain the damage and put the scandal behind it.

Separately, another Labour lawmaker said he had written to nonexecutive directors of News Corporation urging that James and Rupert Murdoch be suspended from their roles in running the company.

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