 In July 2011 , following the revelation that the News of the World had paid private investigators to hack into the phones of Milly Dowler , as well as the families of murder victims and deceased servicemen , Miliband called for News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks to resign , urged David Cameron to establish a public , judge @-@ led inquiry into the scandal , and announced that he would force a Commons vote on whether to block the News International bid for a controlling stake in BSkyB . He also called for the Press Complaints Commission to be abolished – a call later echoed by Cameron and Nick Clegg – and called into question Cameron 's judgement in hiring former News of the World editor Andy Coulson to be his Director of communications . Cameron later took the unusual step of saying that the government would back Miliband 's motion that the BSkyB bid be dropped , and an hour before Miliband 's motion was due to be debated , News International announced that it would withdraw the bid . 
