LONDON - Opposition leader Ed Miliband dismissed Britain's press watchdog as a "toothless poodle" on Friday, and said the closure of the News of the World should not let Rupert Murdoch's most senior newspaper executive off the hook.
Speaking a day after Murdoch's News Corp shut down the News of the World tabloid at the heart of a phone hacking scandal, Miliband said Rebekah Brooks, the newspaper's former editor and now chief executive of the group's British newspapers, should also pay the price.
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The News of The World," Miliband told an audience at a Thomson Reuters event.
"She was the editor at the time, she should take responsibility for that and I don't think frankly closing down the News of the World changes that."
