Newspaper Royal Charter Plans are 'Bizarre', Says Liberty Director

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By: Lisa O'Carroll | The Guardian

A key adviser to the Leveson report, the civil rights campaigner Shami Chakrabarti, has hit out against politicians and newspaper barons, accusing them of letting down the public over promises to set up a new press watchdog.

One of six assessors on the Leveson inquiry and the director of Liberty, Chakrabarti branded plans to launch a watchdog backed by a royal charter as "bizarre" and said that all politicians and the newspaper industry has done is to create "confusion and resentment" by putting forward rival proposals.































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