Lord Prescott, the former deputy prime minister, has described the revelation by Scotland Yard that he was a potential victim of phone hacking by News of the World journalists as "very significant".
His comments came as it emerged that the reopened police investigation has identified a number of new potential victims.
Just a fortnight after reopening their inquiry, in the wake of an 18-month campaign by the Guardian, police said a re-examination of the evidence they had held for years, but failed to fully investigate, combined with new evidence from the Sunday tabloid, had thrown up an "important and immediate new line of inquiry". The new investigation, they said, had already established "reasonable evidence" that up to 20 people, mainly prominent public figures, were targeted by the paper.
Prescott told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "This is a very big issue, not only for the Met but also the press.
"I want to know all those who have committed criminal acts. What happened before is they decided not to pursue action against people on whom they had evidence that criminal acts had been perpetrated.
"We have got to get a proper reform of the relations between the Metropolitan police and the press.
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