{"id":30135,"date":"2013-03-14T19:01:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T18:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/2013\/03\/14\/leveson-report-labour-and-lib-dems-criticise-david-cameron_n_2877462.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-politics?ncid=GEP"},"modified":"2013-03-14T19:01:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T18:01:08","slug":"an-historic-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/an-historic-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"‘An Historic Mistake’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Labour has accused David Cameron of “an historic mistake” after he called off talks on press reform.<\/p>\n

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg joined the criticism, saying he was “disappointed” and “surprised” at the Tory leader’s decision.<\/p>\n

They were speaking after the Prime Minister called off cross party talks<\/a> aimed at thrashing out a agreement over Lord Justice Leveson’s report, set up in the aftermath of the phone-hacking scandal.<\/p>\n

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Even a senior Conservative, former Cabinet Minister Lord Fowler, joined in, saying Cameron’s vision of a Royal Charter to oversee a regulator was “always a bad idea”.<\/p>\n

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Cameron called a press conference to explain his decision<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Labour and Lib Dem leaders are bracing themselves for a newspaper backlash after holding out for statutory underpinning of the new system.<\/p>\n

Most newspapers – and most of the Conservative Party as well as some Labour MPs – are ardently opposed to any law to regulate the press.<\/p>\n

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