Ed Miliband Tells Rupert Murdoch - Drop BSkyB Bid - NOTW Phone Hacking *NEW*

Drop BSkyB bid, Miliband tells Murdoch.

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Labour leader Ed Miliband has said Rupert Murdoch should "drop the bid for BSkyB" which he said was "untenable" in the light of phone hacking allegations.

He had said he would push for a Commons vote to delay the News Corporation takeover bid on Wednesday.

Deputy PM Nick Clegg has also said Mr Murdoch should "reconsider" the bid.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which already owns a 39.1% share of BSkyB, want to acquire the remaining shares to take full control of the company.

Mr Mliband said:

"My message to Mr Murdoch would be 'Ddop the bid for BSkyB. He should recognise that the cloud of allegations swirling around News International make it completely untenable for this bid to go ahead and I think he must recognise that."

He also said the prime minister must "come clean" about what he knew about allegations about his former communications director Andy Coulson - another former News of the World editor - saying there were a "whole series of unanswered questions" about the issue.

The Labour leader accused the government of "chaos and confusion" over the phone hacking scandal and said it had been "forced" to backtrack over the BSkyB bid - having suggested it could not change its position for legal reasons.

It had been thought that the deal was on track to be approved, after the government said it was minded to accept assurances that Sky News would be spun off as a separate company - rather than refer it to the Competition Commission. Mr Hunt was expected to give his final approval to the deal in June 2011.

Thank you to the BBC.

Monday 11th July 2011

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[GloucesterAdam]

Millibland - see no evil, hear no evil and talk sloblock. The Sun ;) does not shine out of your backside Ed, and wouldn't it be nice if Murdoch told us the truth about Ed and cabbage patch Cameron. Left/Right is bull - they are ALL in it together, 'Labour' and 'Conservative' are just names like Ford and Toyota are names of car companies. They look different but the end model is the same - a thing on four wheels that gets you from a to b. We need NEW politics and the end of Reds and Blues.

[princeofswine]

Your part of the problem over all the years this has been going on you have not done a thing about it ,what did you expect the bad boys will go away thats how they earn there money.Stop spouting and do something about it,that little man Murdock knew it was going on ,do you thinks honestly that a man who built up an empire does not know and sanctions his reporters,come on how duped do you want to show the brittish public you are,As all paerties are in agreement get rid of the little shit