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  "The Deputy Prime Minister was told he had no "standing" to object to the former News of The World editor being given the Downing Street job despite the phone hacking scandal, according to Chris Huhne, the Energy Secretary.
  
  Mr Huhne's comments follow the disclosure by the former Lib Dem leader Lord Ashdown that he also warned the Prime Minister of the "terrible damage" to the coalition if he employed Mr Coulson.
  
  Details of the high-level warnings emerged despite Mr Cameron's insistence that he received "no actionable information" about Mr Coulson before the appointment.
  
  On Saturday it was disclosed that Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, also contacted Mr Cameron's aides to warn them about how the News of The World had rehired Jonathan Rees, a private detective knowing that he had served seven years in jail conspiring to frame a woman.
  
  Mr Huhne told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that hiring Mr Coulson given what was already known about phone hacking at the News of The World was a "very serious risk".

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