Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader Sues News Corp. Over Hacking

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The deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, the junior partners in Britain’s coalition government, sued News Corp.’s U.K. unit over phone hacking at the now defunct News of the World newspaper.

Simon Hughes, the member of Parliament for Bermondsey and Old Southwark, filed a lawsuit yesterday in London against News International and Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator jailed in 2007 for illegally intercepting phone messages.