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Political Motives Behind Newspaper Regulation?
- The Drum, Sunday, January 13, 2013 4:04 PM
Former chairman of Express Newspapers and peer for the UK Independence Party, Lord Stevens of Ludgate, has said that politicians and celebrities with “dubious private lives” had questionable motives for joining the campaign for press regulation. During the latest debate on the merits of introducing the recommendations made by Lord Justice Leveson, Lord Stevens said a “Leveson act” would give politicians the “entry point” to restrict journalistic investigations.
