LONDON — British Prime Minister David Cameron faced more questions about his judgment Tuesday amid reports that one of his top aides continued to receive money from the News of the World even after quitting the tabloid because of the phone-hacking scandal and signing up to work for the Conservative Party.
Cameron hired Andy Coulson as the party’s chief communications guru in 2007, shortly after Coulson stepped down as editor of the News of the World.
Yet even after starting to work for the then-opposition Conservatives — at a rumored annual salary of more than a half million dollars, according to the exchange rate at the time — Coulson continued receiving severance payments for several months from News International, the company that owned the now-defunct News of the World, the BBC reported.
