MP implicates more Murdoch newspapers in hacking row

Rupert Murdoch's entire stable of British newspapers was dragged into the phone hacking row yesterday when a former Labour minister told the House of Commons the scandal touched The Times, The Sunday Times and The Sun.

Tom Watson MP said during discussion of Mr Murdoch's BSkyB bid that he believed evidence existed that journalists employed on the Times titles had been involved in phone hacking and that their sister paper, The Sun, had printed a story possibly based on hacked conversations.

He also told MPs that the BBC had been bullied into delaying a Panorama programme on newspaper tactics – which he said involved "more sinister forms of illegal surveillance"