Leveson and royal charter: Lord Fowler and John Hemming

Name: Leveson and royal charter: Lord Fowler and John Hemming
Uploaded: 2013-02-12T13:06:01.000Z
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Description: Politicians' hands should be kept off the regulatory code for newspapers, said the Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming.

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Politicians' hands should be kept off the regulatory code for newspapers, said the Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming.

Conservative peer Lord Fowler spoke against the plan for a royal charter saying he wanted to see the Leveson Report "in its entirety", and claimed there had been a "frankly hysterical reaction" to the report into press regulation.

Natalie Fenton of the campaigning group Hacked Off

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UK Politics

12 February 2013