Is Cameron surrendering to press power?

Professor Steven Barnett Steven Barnett, Professor of Communications at the University of Westminster, explains why John Whittingdale’s announcement that the Government might not enact key provisions of the Leveson framework on press regulation – if pursued – would fatally undermine the historic cross-party agreement passed by Parliament. It would, he argues, be worse than the climbdown by John Major’s Government 20 years ago and proof of the continuing power of the British press.