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Lord Black: Government press regulation 'makes dodgy dossier look like magnificent item of statecraft'

on Apr 25, 2014 | 0 comments

By Angela Haggerty

Lord Black has confirmed he will step back from the Independent Press Standards Organisation once it launches, but said he will continue to oversee a legal challenge over the rejection of the industry’s alternative charter last year.

Speaking at the Scottish Newspaper Society’s inaugural conference in Glasgow on Thursday, Lord Black gave a scathing condemnation of the government’s handling of the Royal Charter and said the document made “the infamous dodgy dossier look like a magnificent piece of statecraft” in a reference to the Iraq war.

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Source: The Drum