LONDON — An apologetic Prime Minister David Cameron distanced himself Wednesday from his former communications director, telling an emergency session of Parliament he never would have hired the ex-tabloid editor if he had known about the newspaper's phone-hacking scandal.
"Of course I regret, and I am extremely sorry, about the furor it has caused," Mr. Cameron said of hiring Andy Coulson, who resigned in January just as the News of the World's scandal was getting widespread attention.
