David Cameron cuts Africa trip short over phone-hacking crisis

[deminks]

Source: The Guardian

David Cameron begins a two-day visit to Africa which has been curtailed to allow the prime minister to fly home early to finalise the terms and membership of Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry into the media.

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Downing Street aides, who had at one point considered cancelling the trip altogether at the height of the phone-hacking crisis last week, instead decided to cut it back from four days to two. Cameron will now just visit South Africa and Nigeriaon Tuesday. Plans to visit Rwanda and Sudan have been scrapped.

Time has been found in the diary to allow No 10 aides – and possibly the prime minister – to watch the appearance by Rupert and James Murdoch.



Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jul/18/david-cameron-africa-phone-hacking

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. Why on earth is this man allowed to take vacations when corruption hell is breaking loose?

I don't get it.

[dipsydoodle]

3. Possibly because

the great majority of the British public don't appear to attach the level of importance to this that you may do. They also don't regard business trips to Africa as vacations/holidays. Most of our public are more concerned about jobs, homes , rising fuel costs and the price of corn flakes.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. Nono, I don't mean he shouldn't take vacations, period. I mean that HE is implicated in the

Murdoch fallout, and he's acting like lalala.

[tishaLA]

2. I thoight he just left...

When Sir Paul was offering his resignation?

Well, if he has to go back that quickly, I'm happy. He knows there's significant trouble ahead.