What the newspapers say following the Leveson report
- Daily Telegraph: We can now add David Cameron’s name to the defenders of press freedom. It’s a lonely and unpopular cause, but seems to have just acquired its single most important champion.
- Daily Mail: A rotten day for freedom: Yes, he got some things right. But to whitewash the politicians and the police while demanding the Press be shackled betrays dismaying naivety. Worse, it is a tragic blow to liberty and the public's right to know
- The Times (£): The Inquiry has succeeded in many ways, but a press law would not be right in principle and is not needed.
- The Mirror: Political bickering over Lord Leveson's doorstop of a report is getting very messy.
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