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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/pm-defends-police-on-hacking-probe.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Tom Watson MP has called for an independent investigation into the Metropolitan Police's handling of allegations of phone hacking" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-pm-defends-police-on-hacking-probe.jpg" alt="Tom Watson MP has called for an independent investigation into the Metropolitan Police's handling of allegations of phone hacking"/></a></p>
<p>David Cameron has defended the Metropolitan Police over its phone hacking inquiry after a Labour MP called for another force to take over the investigation.</p>
<p>The Prime Minister said it was not &#8220;necessarily fair&#8221; to say the Met had not been active on the issue.</p>
<p>At Commons question time, former minister Tom Watson said: &#8220;The former investigating officer is now on the payroll of News International. Three senior editors are now identified with phone hacking.</p>
<p>&#8220;Isn&#8217;t it time that another police force took over the inquiry? You have the status to make it happen, Prime Minister. What are you afraid of?&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Cameron replied: &#8220;Let me be absolutely clear &#8211; phone hacking is wrong. Phone hacking is illegal.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s quite right that the Director of Public Prosecutions (Keir Starmer) is reviewing all of the evidence and they should follow the evidence wherever it leads.</p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s necessarily fair to say that the police have not been active &#8211; after all, there have been prosecutions, convictions and indeed imprisonments. But the law is quite clear &#8211; prosecuting authorities should follow it wherever it leads.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Starmer this week announced that the Crown Prosecution Service will expand its review of evidence gathered during the phone hacking inquiry to include fresh claims swirling around the scandal.</p>
<p>He said any evidence from &#8220;recent or new substantive allegations&#8221; will be assessed by a senior barrister as part of an ongoing inquiry into material already held by Scotland Yard.</p>
<p>The Met is under intense pressure to reopen its investigation following the departure of Downing Street communications chief Andy Coulson.</p>
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