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Serena Williams of the USA celebrates after winning the French Open final against Maria Sharapova of Russia at Roland Garros in Paris yesterday. The 31-year-old American beat the 2012 champion 6-4, 6-4, to become the oldest woman to win the Suzanne Lenglen cup – a trophy that she first picked up 11 years ago – since the tournament went professional in 1968. Williams has now notched up 16 grand slam singles titles, out of the 20 finals she has fought. (Sport, pages 12-13) Photograph by Yoan Valat/EPA

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by Toby HelmPolitical Editor

David Cameron is under pressure to force his chief election strategist, Lynton Crosby, to reveal the identity of his business clients as new details emerge today of the way the Australian combines roles as the Tories’ top political adviser with that of a com-mercial lobbyist. Crosby’s position as the Conservatives’ election guru – at the same time as heading his own com-munications, polling and lobbying fi rm, Crosby Textor – is causing growing unease inside the party and the coali-tion, as ministers prepare to introduce

sweeping new transparency rules on the role of lobbyists in public life.

Last night Labour and Tory MPs, backed by pressure groups, insisted that Crosby – who is due tomorrow to address Conservatives in the House of Commons on party strategy – should have to reveal his clients under the

Tory guru under fi re over lobbying

by Peter Beaumont and Toby Helm

Ministers will respond in parliament tomorrow to claims that UK intelligence agencies have gained access to a vast reservoir of private data relating to peo-ple living in Britain – including emails and phone logs – collected by spies at the US National Security Agency.

Amid growing calls for the govern-ment to reveal what it knows about the data interception scandal revealed by the Guardian last week , senior White-hall sources said it was “highly likely” that a statement would be delivered to MPs in the Commons either by the for-eign secretary, William Hague, whose department is responsible for GCHQ, or the home secretary, Theresa May.

May is scheduled to answer Home Offi ce questions tomorrow at which the issue will dominate, if no formal state-ment is to be made. Among questions that MPs want answered as a matter of urgency is whether any of the intel-ligence supplied by the US about British citizens was handed over to GCHQ in breach of British interception legislation, or whether British intelligence offi cials

attempted to bypass British law by send-ing requests for intercepts to the US.

The calls follow several days of leaks of top-secret documents from within the NSA to the Guardian, painting in shock-ing detail for the fi rst time the vast reach of the NSA’s electronic spying opera-tions conducted as part of anti-terrorism investigations and foreign intelligence gathering. Included have been revela-tions of how the NSA has collected huge amounts of so-called “metadata” from telephone companies such as Verizon. This is data that gives details of calls made, numbers dialled and their dura-tion, rather than the content of the conversations.

A second leak to the Guardian was contained in a PowerPoint presentation detailing the secret NSA programme called “Prism”, which appears to make use of vast swath s of email and instant chat messaging data supplied by tech-nology companies including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple.

Although the Obama administra-tion has admitted that the NSA mines telephony and other communications data – including from US citizens –

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Lynton Crosby is under increasing pressure to reveal the client list of his lobbying company, Crosby Textor.

Under President Barack Obama’s administration, the NSA has been collecting private data belonging to people in the UK

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