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Home Secretary Yvette Cooper
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy
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<div>News Group is a powerful newspaper publisher, but no organisation should be above the law.</div><div> </div><div><strong>Yet a failure to follow through with the promised second stage of the Leveson Inquiry would do exactly that: confirm that under your Labour Government, organisations with enough power, influence and money can evade legal accountability.</strong></div><div> </div><div>For years, The Sun denied being responsible for illegal behaviour in connection with the phone hacking scandal. It hid behind these denials as it lobbied Conservative administrations to cancel Leveson Part Two - the inquiry into criminality and corruption in the press. We now know, after the settlement in the case between News Group, Prince Harry and Lord Watson, that these denials were lies.</div><div> </div><div>And yet, Murdoch's publisher has not faced the investigations and the justice which the public expect and demand.</div><div> </div><div>Neither has there been the full and promised investigation into the corrupt relationships between South Yorkshire Police and The Sun newspaper in relation to coverage of the Hillsborough disaster. Nor, for that matter, into police & press corruption in relation to the Battle of Ogreave, or other injustices and abuses which have been perpetrated and exacerbated by authorities working hand in hand with the press.</div><div> </div><div>Newspapers and their websites are powerful entities, and it is understandable for politicians to fear adverse coverage in the media.</div><div> </div><div><strong>But fear of press owners must not allow your Government to continue to overlook its accountabilities to the British people.</strong></div><div> </div><div>Leveson Part Two is the only way of holding those responsible for illegality and wrongdoing to account, and allowing the public and the press to move on from the scandals of newspaper illegality and corruption. It is supported by the press itself - at least, the individuals who actually work in the press, as represented by the NUJ - and a huge majority of the public.</div><div> </div><div>A failure to listen to them, and to instead let newspaper publishers off the hook for industrial scale criminality because you are frightened of what they will write about you in their newspapers would be cowardly and corrupt.</div><div> </div><div>We should all be equal before the law. The power which comes with owning a newspaper should not make these corporations unaccountable.</div><div> </div><div>The second stage of the Leveson Inquiry must be established as a matter of urgency.</div>
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