Guardian editor, Alan Rusbridger, has resigned from the Press Complaints Commission’s code committee days after the Guardian’s coverage of the News of the World phone-hacking affair was criticised by the regulator.

The PCC said it found no evidence that it was “materially misled” by the News of the World over the alleged hacking of celebrities’ mobile phones or that the practice was “ongoing”, prompting Rusbridger to respond by saying:

“If you have a self-regulation system that’s finding nothing out and has no teeth, and all the work is being done by external people, it’s dangerous for self-regulation. If you have a regulator behaving this uselessly, I suspect MPs will start saying this is not regulation,”

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