Rupert Murdoch has arrived in the UK to face growing pressure to scrap his company's takeover bid for BSkyB due to the phone-hacking crisis. Labour leader Ed Miliband urged him to abandon the bid and sack News International chief Rebekah Brooks. The BBC understands that e-mails found by News International appear to show police were paid for information, and that phone hacking went wider than a single rogue reporter's activities.

David Cameron, Ed Miliband, and Nick Clegg have called for the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) to be scrapped due to its handling of the News of the World phone hacking scandal. The PCC has been criticized for being "ineffective" and "lacking in rigour", with Cameron stating that it failed to get to the bottom of allegations made against News International in 2009. Miliband called the PCC a "toothless poodle" and demanded fundamental change, while Clegg described it as a "busted flush". The government has announced an inquiry into phone hacking, and Cameron said any new press regulatory body should be truly independent.