News Corporation is a „toxic institution“ that operated like a „shadow state“ in British society, according to a Labour MP who is the co-author of a new book about the phone-hacking scandal.

Tom Watson, joint writer of Dial M for Murdoch, said that the book also featured allegations that Murdoch‘s News of the World set out to search for „secret lovers“ or „extramarital affairs“ of MPs on the culture, media and sport select committee in 2009.