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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/exminister-my-phone-was-bugged.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Former Cabinet member Nick Brown has become the latest senior politician to claim that his telephone had been tapped" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-exminister-my-phone-was-bugged.jpg" alt="Former Cabinet member Nick Brown has become the latest senior politician to claim that his telephone had been tapped"/></a></p>
<p>Former Cabinet member Nick Brown has become the latest senior politician to claim that his telephone had been tapped.</p>
<p>Unlike other complaints involving illegal eavesdropping on mobile phone voicemail messages, Labour&#8217;s former chief whip said that it appeared his landline was bugged with a recording device.</p>
<p>And he said police had also warned on a separate occasion that his mobile phone might have been illegally accessed.</p>
<p>Mr Brown&#8217;s comments came as Scotland Yard revived its inquiry into allegations of phone-hacking by journalists at the News of the World, with Metropolitan Police Acting Commissioner Tim Godwin promising to leave &#8220;no stone unturned&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Brown&#8217;s former Cabinet colleague Tessa Jowell on Thursday called in police after being warned by her phone provider of a failed attempt to access her voicemail as recently as last week.</p>
<p>Speaking to Newcastle&#8217;s Journal newspaper, Mr Brown revealed he became suspicious that his phone had been bugged following a conversation with an &#8220;important&#8221; person several years ago.</p>
<p>&#8220;I picked up a landline telephone very quickly &#8230; to make another call straight away,&#8221; said the Newcastle East MP. &#8220;And the line clicked and then I heard my last conversation played back to me, which was quite eerie.</p>
<p>&#8220;I got on to British Telecom straight away &#8230; They said the line showed every signs of having been intercepted manually, not through scanners. It was an amateurish attempt involving the physical intervention of the line with a recording device.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Brown said that on another occasion, he was contacted by a police force in the West Country, who told him they were pursuing a phone-tapping prosecution and he was one of those who may have been targeted. Although the case reached court, the judge&#8217;s rulings meant the prosecution did not go ahead, and Mr Brown was not told full details of the allegations.</p>
<p>&#8220;Given that it was near Highgrove, my assumption was that this might involve the Royal Family. But I was never explicitly told that,&#8221; he said. Asked if he had spoken again to police, he said: &#8220;It seems to me once the court says the court cannot proceed, I am not quite sure what there is left to do.&#8221;</p>
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