Boris Johnson: The whole of Fleet Street is involved in phone hacking
Reacting to the latest revelations in the ongoing News of the World phone hacking enquiry London mayor Boris Johnson has set out what is bugging him about the ongoing fracas.
Noting with incredulity the five year delay between the hacking allegations first surfacing in 2006 and today’s public protestations of outrage by senior Labour politicians Johnson wrote in his Telegraph column: “If it is really the case that le tout Londres was bugged, and it was really such a cinch to do it – then does anyone seriously believe that the News of the World was the only paper that did it?
“The whole of Fleet Street has got on its high horse in a kind of Grand National of outrage – and yet I bet that virtually the whole of Fleet Street was involved (and may still be involved) in doing very much the same sort of thing.”
Suspecting that the current story may just be the tip of the iceberg Johnson concluded: “That is why we need a process of Truth and Reconciliation. It is time for every editor and every proprietor to appear before an inquiry and confess. Before it is dragged from them, they need to admit to all the bugging and hacking that they allowed – wittingly or unwittingly – in their organisations.”