Rebekah Brooks and David Cameron: a bad business

David Cameron has confidence born of never having had to deal with failure, I feel.

Even when he’s getting dragged into the News of the World scandal he’s got something about him which suggests he knows that he’s getting away scot-free from all this.

Is he, though? He is obviously exceeding close to Rebekah Brooks, and that can’t be good. His call that she resign looks like a man struggling to get rid of an albatross.

The longer she stays in her job, the worse she looks (not to mention Cameron) and the more the public starts to question the links between the government (past and present) and News International.

If the government presses on with allowing NewsCorp to take over BSkyB outright it will confirm that there is something deeply unpleasant afoot.