And then to step out onto the sands of Tahiti, I really have to thank ABC again for giving us the Disney jet and letting us have this really magical weekend in Tahiti. I loved the way they did it. What did you think of how the producers wrote in that twist? It really caught us all by surprise. Even in the table read, we read the scripts together before we start shooting them and it was one where we just had to say it like robots and move through it. We knew how devastating it would be.
Everyone shooting it and fans, no one sees it coming. Iain has created this incredibly complex and beloved character in Fitz that everyone cares about so much. We were rooting for him and Simmons, they just got married. Can it connect with the MCU, especially knowing how Infinity War ended with that game-changing cliffhanger? It was a simple equation. Once the press officer becomes the story, it is the end of the press officer. While Cameron and George Osborne, who was instrumental in recruiting Coulson, were sad to see him go, allies suggest the fact they are not distraught shows how they have grown in confidence since appointing Coulson at a low point in , during the row over grammar schools.
As Labour criticised the prime minister's judgment in bringing a former tabloid editor with baggage into Downing Street, most Tories were gentle with Cameron. Coulson had always denied any knowledge of phone hacking, though members of the cross-party commons culture committee had him in mind last February when they warned of a "collective amnesia" at News International over the practice.
One minister did, however, voice doubts about Coulson's claim that media intrusion alone had prompted his resignation. Labour claimed the decision to appoint Coulson to such a senior Downing Street post raised questions about Cameron's judgment.
Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, said: "The cloud of allegations surrounding Andy Coulson's tenure at the News of the World raised real questions about his ability to be at the heart of the Downing Street machine. He's now done the right thing but he should have done it earlier.
I think it raises real questions about David Cameron's judgment that he hung on to Andy Coulson for so long.
It has gone on and on and I can understand why he feels the pressure of that. He has run the Downing Street press office in a very straightforward professional and competent way.
He said he compared Coulson's regime with "the days of dodgy dossiers, Alastair Campbell, Damian McBride and all that nonsense we had from the past government". He reiterated Coulson's dogged defence, saying his communications director "had resigned as News of the World editor as soon as he found what was happening". Coulson resigned from the paper in January , the day royal editor Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, were jailed for hacking into the phones of members of the royal household.
He insisted the hacking was done by one rogue reporter. Coulson was appointed Cameron's communications director in April and a subsequent police investigation led to no further action. The Guardian then published claims that hacking was widespread, and the clouds darkened around Coulson before Christmas when Ian Edmondson, the assistant editor news and close to Coulson, was suspended pending an investigation that he had been involved in hacking.
Coulson - who inspires great loyalty amongst those who work for him - was aware that there was little prospect of an end to the allegations, as he faced the threat of further police interviews and civil court cases in which efforts would be made to disprove his defence that he knew nothing about a culture of phone hacking. Coulson told Cameron of his decision to resign on Wednesday and, after efforts to dissuade him, it was agreed he would announce his departure today, the day Tony Blair was giving evidence to the Iraq war inquiry.
A resignation on Thursday would have overshadowed an international summit being hosted by Cameron.
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