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Stephen Tall

Clegg statement on Leveson: our proposals pose no danger to press freedom, but will give assurance to victims

By Stephen Tall | Sat 16th March 2013 - 10:29 am

clegg on levesonNick Clegg – who declared on Thursday his backing for a free and fair press – has now published a statement on how he’s approaching next week’s critical Commons vote on how the Leveson Report is taken forward:

Next week MPs will have the chance to deliver the robust, independent self-regulation for the press that Lord Justice Leveson recommended in his report.

It was hoped that talks between the party leaders would be able to agree how such a system would work, but the Prime Minister’s decision to end

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Here’s a ******* awesome Liberal Voice we should hear more from

By Stephen Tall | Wed 16th January 2013 - 9:10 pm

With apologies to those who’ve already seen this story — but it’s too good for us not also to copy and paste from the Telegraph report…

With Nick Clegg about to miss ‘an unprecedented fourth meeting of the Privy Council’ in his role as Lord President of the Council, the Telegraph spotted a mischief-making opportunity and phoned one of the leader’s aides to get a quote. The reporter got more than he …

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