Tust two months ago, David Cameron J was a prime minister in his pomp: triumphant in a referendum that rejected voting reform and magisterially untroubled by his Labour opponent, Ed Miliband. On July 18th he was asked by a journalist whether he would consider resigning. For all that British public life is being ravaged by allegations of voice-mail-hacking and police-bribing at the News of the World, his hiring in 2007 of Andy Coulson, a former editor of the tabloid who was arrested over those activities earlier this month, is likely to prove foolish rather than fatal. That the question was even raised, however, is a mark of how the scandal has burgeoned in recent weeks.
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机译：在两个月前的沙尘暴中，戴维·卡梅伦·J（David Cameron J）出任总理：在公投中获胜，该公投拒绝了投票改革，并在工党反对派埃德·米利班德（Ed Miliband）的领导下毫不动摇。 7月18日，一名记者问他是否会考虑辞职。尽管在《世界新闻报》（News of the World）遭到语音邮件黑客攻击和警察贿赂的指控，英国的公共生活受到了极大破坏，但他在2007年聘用了前小报的编辑安迪·库尔森（Andy Coulson），此前他因这些活动而被捕一个月，很可能证明是愚蠢而不是致命的。然而，甚至有人提出了这个问题，这标志着最近几周丑闻如何迅速发展。
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