It is no great surprise that Hacked Off director Brian Cathcart believes the government can’t be trusted to implement Leveson: the Prime Minister made very clear on the day of the report’s publication that he didn’t believe governments could be trusted to regulate the press via statute.
But what is interesting about the draft bill that the media reform pressure group has published this morning is that it claims to be the most faithful implementation of the Leveson recommendations: more faithful, even, than that proposed by the Labour party.
Ed Miliband has thus far managed to paint himself as the brave little David standing up to the media Goliaths on behalf of the victims of press intrusion, but rather than working with Labour on its draft bill, which it published before Christmas, Hacked Off is producing its own ‘pure’ version.
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