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Senior politicians are reported to have rejected the newspaper-backed plan for press regulation, claiming that the proposals were flawed and lacking independence.
Chair of the Privy Council sub-committee looking into the proposals, Danny Alexander, has insisted that no final decision has yet been made, with a meting of the full Privy Council tomorrow.
Politicians are looking at two plans for future regulation of the press – one created by the government with cross-party and activist support, and one created by the newspaper industry.
The two plans differ on who could make up the “recognition panel” who would decide on how newspapers would be regulated, and the newspaper-backed plan would block parliament making changes to future changes without the support of the panel and trade bodies.
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Hi,
Politicians reject newspapers’ plans for post-Leveson regulation. I followed the then Lord Leveson inquiry and reading the report I made a number observations. First it is a complex document in content and volume. That the government and Mr. Cameron so quickly gave a response to parliament
is an indication that they acted of assessment from others. The report itself,
as you say in Swiss German is “verzettelt” frittered away, a discourse on the
origin and basis of inequality between the press and the public. Secondly parliament doesn’t understand it, as the press. The core of the now Sir Brian’s report is there must be an independent regulator to control the regulators, like in football where the lines-man controls the referee. The idea of a Royal Charter, a formal document issued by a monarch as letters patent is from Mr. Cameron brewery and nuts. This reminiscence of a steam clipper which was wrecked off the beach of Porth Alerth in Dulas Bay on the north-east coast of Anglesey on 26 October 1859. Such an endeavor will also sink. Mr. Cameron’s concern is one roll your own cigarette’s with the paper you read not being concerned about the dangers of smoking of reading tripe.