Can you tell the president I'll call him back? I'm half way through a three-set thriller with Rebekah Brooks' husband.
According to Charlie Brooks, who faces charges linked to phone hacking along with his wife, David Cameron put the most powerful man in the world on hold while he finished of a game of tennis at his country mansion.
"We're pretty good friends. I played tennis with him at Chequers one day," Brooks told the Racing Post.
"I won the first set easily, then he won the second set, and then someone came up to him and said 'Er... Mr Obama is on the phone for you, prime minister.' He said: 'I think we've got time for a third set - tell Mr Obama I'll ring him back.'
As The Independentreports today, Brooks added: "He obviously thought he had me on the ropes, and I beat him two sets to one."
However Downing Street is said to be "baffled" by Brooks' story as US president's do not simply call up the prime minister on a whim.
A N0. 10 source told the Daily Mail: "Calls between PM and president are scheduled by officials, there's an agenda. This story simply can't be true."
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Can you tell the president I'll call him back? I'm half way through a three-set thriller with Rebekah Brooks' husband.
According to Charlie Brooks, who faces charges linked to phone hacking along w...
Can you tell the president I'll call him back? I'm half way through a three-set thriller with Rebekah Brooks' husband.
According to Charlie Brooks, who faces charges linked to phone hacking along w...
Even on the other side of the world, Prime Minister David Cameron was unable to escape speculation about possible threats to his position from London...
Not only are the calls arranged (with allowances for the time difference) but there's no way it would have the President himself, a senior advisor at best, more likely a secretary would have placed the call to save the President's time!
Nathan0316: Not only are the calls arranged (with allowances for the
The reporter on this story belongs on the Onion News Network, inventing an entire scenario out of a quote from a known indicted liar and his even more disgusting wife. If this is all you need to have to invent a story, complete with a stock fake photo, and peddle it without shame across the world then perhaps Rebekah Brooks shouldn't be on trial but ALL of British journalism including HuffPoUK.
As satire, it could have been brilliant.
yoursotruly: The reporter on this story belongs on the Onion News
This Charlie Brooks is married to Rebekah Brooks, the one at the center of the phone hacking scandal. That alone should be enough of a clue that this is all a big fabrication.
deminip: This Charlie Brooks is married to Rebekah Brooks, the one
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The Huffington Post UK | Posted: 27/09/2012 14:11 Updated: 27/09/2012 15:42