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Global Press Urges Queen To Deny Royal Charter
- Press Gazette, Thursday, October 24, 2013 1:58 PM
A group of international press and media organisations has written directly to the Queen urging her not to approve the Royal Charter on press regulation which is set to go for approval by the Privy Council at the end of this month. They argue it is not the role of a Royal Charter to impose "repressive statutory controls" which they say would bring Parliament into the "heart of the newsroom" for the first time. It is believed that the last time the monarch refused the Royal Assent for a piece of Government business was Queen Anne in 1705.
