The news that Rebekah Brooks and Charlie Brooks have been charged with perverting the course of justice means that there’ll be at least one trial involving friends of the Prime Minister before the next election.
In cynical political terms, that Charlie has been charged as well as Rebekah creates an additional political problem for David Cameron.
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