Rebekah Brooks faces full-day hearing at Leveson inquiry Rebekah Brooks is to give evidence to the Leveson inquiry into press ethics on Friday. Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, is to give evidence to the Leveson inquiry into press ethics on Friday. Brooks, the former editor of both the Sun and News of the World, will appear at a full-day hearing set aside for her. Brooks is expected to come under close scrutiny about her links with David Cameron as the inquiry turns its attention to what inquiry counsel Robert Jay on Thursday referred to as the sometimes "too cosy" relationship between some media executives and politicians. No 10 is bracing itself for Brooks's appearance, after it was reported that the pair sometimes exchanged more than a dozen text messages a day. The prime minister was also reported to have offered his personal support to Brooks after she resigned from News International at the height of the phone-hacking scandal in July last year. Cameron is already on the back foot after Andy Coulson, his former director of communications and a former editor of the News of the World, told the inquiry on Thursday that the prime minister had only asked him once about phone hacking. Brooks's evidence on Friday will be the first time she has made any public statement since 19 July 2011, when she gave evidence to the Commons culture, media and sport select committee on phone hacking. She will face a series of questions about her relationship with former prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, but the inquiry is likely to place extra scrutiny on her dealings with Cameron. Brooks is unlikely to be asked about the ongoing police investigations into phone hacking or payments to police officers. She is currently on police bail after being arrested on suspicion of conspiring to intercept voicemail messages and of corruption on 17 July last year, and separately held on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice on 13 March this year. The 43-year-old, who edited the News of the World from 2000 to 2003, was criticised by the Commons cross-party select committee earlier in May for overseeing a culture at the Sunday tabloid in which reporters acted unethically in their dogged coverage of the Milly Dowler murder investigation. "The attempts by the News of the World to get a scoop on Milly Dowler led to a considerable amount of valuable police resource being redirected to the pursuit of false leads," the committee said in its phone-hacking report. For those actions, and the culture which permitted them, the editor should accept responsibility. Brooks became the first female editor of the Sun in 2003. She was made chief executive of News International in September 2009 until 15 July 2011, when she resigned days after the Guardian's Milly Dowler story. She declined to answer questions from the Commons culture, media and sport select committee on four separate occasions between July 2009 and May 2011, according to its report. Brooks did appear before the committee in July 2011.