Yet the case against [Andy] Coulson today is considerably g… - Peter Oborne

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Yet the case against [Andy] Coulson today is considerably graver than the case against Campbell. As deputy editor and then editor of the News of the World, he was presiding over what can only be described as a flourishing criminal concern.
Cameron has privately remarked of Coulson that everyone deserves a second chance. Yet it is surely unwise to treat high political office as a version of a community rehabilitation scheme. Cameron may well win next month's election. He will be making an extremely worrying statement about the type of government he plans to lead if he allows Coulson anywhere near Downing Street.

Peter Oborne

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Peter Alan Oborne (born 11 July 1957) is a British journalist and broadcaster. He is the former chief political commentator of The Daily Telegraph, from which he resigned in early 2015. He is author of The Rise of Political Lying, The Triumph of the Political Class, and The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism, and along with Frances Weaver of the pamphlet Guilty Men. He writes a political column for Middle East Eye and a diary column for Byline Times. Oborne served as a commissioner for the Citizens Commission on Islam, Participation and Public Life. He won the Press Awards Columnist of the Year in 2012 and again in 2016.

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