U.K. Political Parties Reach Deal to Regulate Newspapers
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Britain’s main political parties have agreed on new measures to regulate the press after Prime Minister David Cameron and his coalition partners split over the issue last week.
Mr. Cameron’s Conservatives reached a deal in late-night talks with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats and the opposition Labor Party to introduce a Royal Charter creating a new newspaper complaints body, backed by a clause in a bill passing through Parliament today that will make it difficult for the nature of the charter to be changed.
That may have given the Royal Charter, favored by Mr. Cameron over new press regulation directly from Parliament, enough standing for the Labor Party and others who favored the “statutory underpinning” for new rules suggested by Judge Brian Leveson following the News Corp. hacking scandal. The prime minister had said he opposed any kind of law regulating the media.
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