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Harriet Harman: A deal 'has been agreed'

Harriet Harman, Deputy Leader of the Labour party, has told Daybreak that a deal has been reached on press regulation.

"The entirety of the Leveson report in terms of it's key provisions, tough, independent, self regulation, has actually been agreed", Ms Harman said.

She added it strengthens the press to have "high standards", "a free press needs to be a strong and clean press".

Harriet Harman on The Agenda tonight

Harriet Harman will be joined by Mary Beard, Omid Djalili and Daniel Finkelstein Credit: PA Wire

The deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman will join ITV News Political Editor Tom Bradby on The Agenda tonight.

Also with the shadow culture secretary will be historian Mary Beard, comedian and Splash! contestant Omid Djalili and Daniel Finkelstein from The Times.

The Agenda with Tom Bradby will be broadcast on ITV at 10.35pm.

You can join in the debate on Twitter using #theagenda.

Watch Omid Djalili's winning dive on the first heat of Splash!

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Harman: McAlpine Twitter action 'a wake up call'

Deputy Labour Leader Harriet Harman called Lord McAlpine's legal action against Twitter users who wrongly linked him to child abuse claims "a wake up call".

Deputy Labour Leader Harriet Harman in the Commons
Deputy Labour Leader Harriet Harman is on tonight's The Agenda With Tom Bradby Credit: PA Wire

The Shadow Culture Secretary told ITV1's The Agenda With Tom Bradby, "It's a reminder that it's [Twitter's] not a no-go zone for the criminal law or the civil law".

"I think Twitter helps with the news. You find out things so much more quickly - that is unless you're the Director General of the BBC," she added.

The Agenda will be broadcast at 10.35pm tonight on ITV1.

National Audit Office could examine Entwistle's pay-off

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The Culture Secretary tells the Commons that George Entwistle's pay off is hard to justify. She suggests that the National Audit Office could look at it.

Her shadow Harriet Harman says the BBC Trust cannot justify doubling the Director-General's payout.

She says Mr Entwistle should reflect on it and take only what he is entitled to in his contract.

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Harman: 'Entwistle payment a reward for failure'

Harriet Harman MP, Labour's Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, said:

It is not justifiable for the BBC to pay double the contractually required sum to the director general on his resignation. It looks like a reward for failure.

George Entwistle should decline to accept any more than is required under his contract.

This is not the way to restore public confidence in the BBC.

Harman: Mirror hacking allegations 'troubling'

The news that four phone hacking cases have been lodged at the High Court against Mirror Group Newspapers raises the troubling possibility that hacking went beyond News International.

It is important that allegations of phone hacking or other criminality in any news organisation are taken seriously.

– Harriet Harman, Deputy Labour Leader
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