@iankatz1000: .@BBCAllegra reveals privy council committee has rejected press's plan for beefed up regulation regime. Expect v angry papers tomorrow...
Not sure the papers will be angry, tim.
This is a perfect outcome for those resisting the imposition of regulation by politicians and makes an agreed regulatory solution before the next GE less likely.
The mistake you always make is thinking Cameron commands the support of his backbenchers
The mistake you always make is to think that anyone but Cameron controls the legislative agenda.
Cameron doesn't want to get isolated on this
The Press are past masters a this game.
They have put forward a workable solution for self-regulation which has now been rejected (at least on an interim basis). The rejection makes it much easier for them to walk away from an imposed alternative.
Essentially they are challenging Parliament to legislate.
The way to solve this problem is to bring the sides together not force them apart. This is now going to be a Quartet decision and they will go for independent regulation but with a few final concessions winkled out of the press barons so that it doesn't look as though the Miller-Alexander commission is being overruled.
Cameron and Clegg will want this done and dusted by Christmas.
"The Queen need not bother attending Wednesday’s meeting of the Privy Council: the decision over press regulation has already been taken according to BBC Newsnight. Unsurprisingly, the octet of MPs has decided to reject the newspapers’ attempt to preserve press freedom, and defer until 30 October its judgment on the politicians’ three-party press regulation instead.
"The Queen need not bother attending Wednesday’s meeting of the Privy Council: the decision over press regulation has already been taken according to BBC Newsnight. Unsurprisingly, the octet of MPs has decided to reject the newspapers’ attempt to preserve press freedom, and defer until 30 October its judgment on the politicians’ three-party press regulation instead.
Was Fraser expecting the Queen to intervene? It's a weird piece if one isn't quite as conservative as him - he appears to be eyeing the American Constitution enviously. I wonder if he'd like the bit about guns too?
It looks as if the "Toffs" jibe will be retired then.
He is quite articulate, but a public schoolboy as Education spokesman for the Labour party says it all...
i've always resisted the Etonian stuff about Cameron, as people can't usually help where they go to school, at least if they make an effort to understand other situations later. You feel differently?
"The Queen need not bother attending Wednesday’s meeting of the Privy Council: the decision over press regulation has already been taken according to BBC Newsnight. Unsurprisingly, the octet of MPs has decided to reject the newspapers’ attempt to preserve press freedom, and defer until 30 October its judgment on the politicians’ three-party press regulation instead.
Was Fraser expecting the Queen to intervene? It's a weird piece if one isn't quite as conservative as him - he appears to be eyeing the American Constitution enviously. I wonder if he'd like the bit about guns too?
It looks as if the "Toffs" jibe will be retired then.
He is quite articulate, but a public schoolboy as Education spokesman for the Labour party says it all...
i've always resisted the Etonian stuff about Cameron, as people can't usually help where they go to school, at least if they make an effort to understand other situations later. You feel differently?
Another corker from Norman - what was Clegg thinking of?
Benedict Brogan @benedictbrogan Thanks to @nicholaswatt for reminding us Norman Baker once speculated Robin Cook may have been murdered as he was on MoD land. Bizarre aptmt
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They have put forward a workable solution for self-regulation which has now been rejected (at least on an interim basis). The rejection makes it much easier for them to walk away from an imposed alternative.
Essentially they are challenging Parliament to legislate.
The way to solve this problem is to bring the sides together not force them apart. This is now going to be a Quartet decision and they will go for independent regulation but with a few final concessions winkled out of the press barons so that it doesn't look as though the Miller-Alexander commission is being overruled.
Cameron and Clegg will want this done and dusted by Christmas.
Labour are simply trying to turn the fight with Gove into a beauty contest.
Carola's loyalties are certain to be torn.
"The Queen need not bother attending Wednesday’s meeting of the Privy Council: the decision over press regulation has already been taken according to BBC Newsnight. Unsurprisingly, the octet of MPs has decided to reject the newspapers’ attempt to preserve press freedom, and defer until 30 October its judgment on the politicians’ three-party press regulation instead.
LOL
Leveson
Child Benefit Fines
Royal Mail rip off
I didn't know tim was into haiku.
You know what they say about Shakespeare, monkeys and typewriters.
But how can she speak about one of her own colleagues like that? Appalling.
She's a real problem for Cameron.
Benedict Brogan @benedictbrogan
Thanks to @nicholaswatt for reminding us Norman Baker once speculated Robin Cook may have been murdered as he was on MoD land. Bizarre aptmt
Surprised Stella Creasy didn't get a post - perhaps she's a bit too good...