Resignation calls for Malthouse over hacking comments

Labour has called on the deputy mayor Kit Malthouse to resign over his role in overseeing the Met Police during the phone-hacking investigation.

It comes after the Leveson Inquiry heard Mr Malthouse told former Met Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson, "on several occasions", that too many resources were being used and the whole hacking affair had been driven by "hysteria in the media".

City Hall insisted Mr Malthouse was acting entirely properly in his former role as chairman of the Police Authority, which oversaw the Met.