(News of the World scandal) No 10 boss attended Scotland Yard dinner with ex-NoW deputy Neil Wallis

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Source: The Guardian

Ed Llewellyn, David Cameron's chief of staff, last night found himself in the spotlight over phone hacking for the second time in a week after No 10 announced that he attended a Scotland Yard dinner attended by Neil Wallis, the former deputy editor of the News of the World.

Llewellyn and Andy Coulson, then communications director at No 10, attended a dinner hosted by Sir Paul Stephenson when he was Metropolitan police commissioner on 17 June last year.

Wallis, once Coulson's deputy at the News of the World, had been hired as a media adviser by the Met and was present at the dinner. Earlier this month Wallis was arrested by the Met as part of Operation Weeting, the main investigation into allegations of phone hacking.

Downing Street sources played down the significance of the dinner. Last week Llewellyn was forced to release emails to show that, last September, he rebuffed an offer from the outgoing Met assistant commissioner, John Yates, to discuss the phone-hacking scandal. Yates made the offer after an article in the New York Times put new pressure on Coulson.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jul/27/no10-boss-dinner-neil-wallis

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1. Given all the Other Startling Revelations This Doesn't Seem Alarming

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2. Interesting how things are dying down regarding Murdoch, even here