Piers Morgan, the former tabloid newspaper editor, was yesterday pulled into the phone hacking scandal after an influential website linked him to the phone hacking scandal.

MPs called for Mr Morgan to be questioned on his involvement in any alleged illegal practices.
Paul Staines, the political blogger who writes under the pseudonym Guido Fawkes, drew attention to comments in Mr Morgan's book The Insider, which is a version of his diaries.
In it, Mr Morgan says the “little trick” of entering a “standard four digit code” allowed “anyone” to call a number and “hear all your messages”.
After Mr Staines highlighted the comments, Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs demanded he be questioned during the independent inquiry.
Aidan Burley, Tory MP for Cannock Chase, said: “Piers Morgan should be called to the phone-hacking inquiry to face questions on oath.”

Last week, Adrian Sanders, the Lib Dem MP for Torbay, implicated the Daily Mirror in the widening scandal.
But the issue was fuelled when Mr Staines quoted Mr Morgan’s diary entry for January 26, 2001.
It reads: “Apparently if you don’t change the standard security code that every phone comes with, then anyone can call your number and, if you don’t answer, tap in the standard four digit code to hear all your messages.
“I’ll change mine just in case, but it makes me wonder how many public figures and celebrities are aware of this little trick.”
The blogger then claimed that the same “little trick” generated a story about Ulrika Jonsson, then a television presenter, and Sven Goran Eriksson, then the England football manager, having an affair.
The story subsequently won Mr Morgan, who was editor of the Mirror between 1995 and 2004, the prize of Scoop of the Year at the British Press Awards.
The Mirror has always said it has never hacked phones.
As well as being the former editor of the Mirror, Mr Morgan is also the former show business editor of the Sun and the former editor of the News of the World.
He is now a successful broadcaster in the US, working as a judge on America’s Got Talent, the US version of the British show, and as the host of CNN’s main talk show, after he replaced Larry King.
By yesterday afternoon, Fawkes’ story had been picked up by US websites, which noted “Americans only familiar with Morgan’s role as CNN’s prime time talk show host may not be aware that the native Brit began his media career in the tabloid world”.
The broadcaster has not made any public comment on recent developments on the hacking debate.
However, when Andy Coulson, the former editor of the News of the World, resigned from his post as David Cameron’s head of communications, he wrote on Twitter: “Very sad to hear news about Andy Coulson – good man, good friend…”
One US site questioned whether Mr Morgan might now be summoned to meet senior executives at CNN to reassure them that he knew nothing of any hacking.