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More Broken Promises, Lies and Betrayal

10/05/2018

The Culture Secretary, Matt Hancock MP, deliberately misled the Commons when he announced the Government's plan to cancel the second half of the Leveson Inquiry on March 1st 2018.

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Sir Brian Leveson wrote in a letter to ministers that he "fundamentally disagrees" with cancelling the promised public inquiry into press-police corruption.

Read Sir Brian's letters in full HERE.

The Government have betrayed press abuse victims, Parliament and the public by reneging on their promise to complete the Leveson Inquiry. We will keep fighting for this vital inquiry into press corruption to take place.

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