Tom Watson MP, Labour Deputy Leader and Shadow Culture Secretary, commenting on the government’s announcement of a consultation on press regulation, said:

“It is five years since David Cameron said the victims of press intrusion should not be ‘thrown to the wolves’. And it is over 1000 days since every political party agreed to implement the recommendations of the Leveson Inquiry in full.  The culture secretary announced we must wait another ten weeks while those reforms are discussed all over again in the context of a wider consultation on the press. They should have been implemented years ago.

“Karen Bradley also cast doubt on whether the second part of the Leveson Inquiry, which will investigate how phone-hacking was covered up, will take place. She has announced a consultation on whether the cover-up should be covered up.”

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