Newspaper industry proposals for a royal charter to establish a new system of self-regulation have been rejected, Culture Secretary Maria Miller has told the House of Commons.
Mrs Miller said the industry plans did not comply with some of the “fundamental principles” of the Leveson Report on press regulation, including on independence and access to arbitration.
The cross-party proposals for a charter agreed by Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Labour and backed by Parliament will now be put forward for approval at a specially-convened meeting of the Privy Council on October 30.
Mrs Miller said all three parties will work together in the next few days to agree a number of “substantive” changes to the text agreed in March and produce a final draft of the cross-party charter.
The industry plan, published in April, was considered by a sub-committee of the Privy Council.
