11/01/2012

Phone Hacking, News International And Labour

Ed’s in trouble with Leveson: Part of the concern for Labour is that the issue of a new regulatory regime for the British media is very clearly on Cameron’s radar. Recent months have brought a sudden stiffening of the Tories’ position on Lord Leveson and his inquiry. Even the Prime Minister has started making ambiguous noises when asked if he will implement the findings in full. “We don’t want heavy-handed state intervention,” he said last month. “We’ve got to have a free press; they’ve got to be free to uncover wrongdoing, to follow the evidence, to do the job in our democracy they need to do.”

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