Royal Charter floated for press
Friday 15 March 2013
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EmailLabour and the Lib Dems watered down demands for legislation on press regulation today, backing Tory calls for a royal charter instead.
Prime Minister David Cameron welcomed the apparent move towards using a royal charter to establish an independent self-regulatory body in the wake of the Leveson report.
But Labour and the Lib Dems have also tabled an amendment to the Crime and Courts Bill that would give a regulator statutory underpinning.
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