William Hague has "sympathy" for disgraced No 10 spin doctor Andy Coulson, who is facing up to two years in prison. The Foreign Secretary added it was not true that he had introduced the former tabloid editor to Tory high command.
The phone hacking verdicts dominated the exchange between David Cameron and Ed Miliband at Prime Minister's Questions.
The Labour leader pushed his opposite number repeatedly on the decision to hire former News of the World editor Andy Coulson as his Communications Director.
Watch their exchanges in full below:
If the PM sustained damage over the phone hacking verdicts, it's because he didn't ask his former communications chief enough questions.
David Cameron is on the hook twice at Downing Street; firstly for employing Andy Coulson and secondly for bringing him into Government.