LEVESON INQUIRY REPORT

Welcome to our live coverage of the publication of Lord Justice Leveson's report into press standards.

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 11:56:18 AM
There are fears that the recommendations within the long-awaited document - weighing in at 2,000 pages - could throw the coalition Government into turmoil.

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 11:58:18 AM
A new regulator for the newspaper industry is expected to be recommended by the judge - underpinned by law.

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 11:59:10 AM
The document is due to be officially unveiled at 1.30pm, but Prime Minister David Cameron and his deputy, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, have had a day to digest the document in advance of publication.

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:00:14 PM
The inquiry was set up in response to revelations that murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler's phone was hacked after she disappeared in 2002

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:02:26 PM
The two men at the head of government had hoped to make a united statement on the report - but Nick Clegg will make a separate statement to parliament this afternoon. This could further expose divisions within the coalition.

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:03:54 PM
Mr Clegg is understood to favour some form of statutory underpinning for Press regulation, while the Prime Minister is believed to be more wary of involving the State in policing the newspapers.

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:04:02 PM
David Cameron and Labour leader Ed Miliband favour cross-party consensus on Leveson, but the PM and Mr Clegg's failure to agree on a simplle message means this will be very difficult to achieve.

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:05:22 PM
Prominent figures in the inquiry have arrived at the QEII conference centre across Parliament Square for their own chance to read the report before it is published.

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:09:10 PM
These include Kate McCann, mother of missing Madeleine McCann

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:09:54 PM
The parents of Milly Dowler have also arrived at the centre.

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:10:26 PM
Actor Hugh Grant, a figurehead for the Hacked Off press reform body, is also there

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:12:02 PM
With victims about to get our advance copy of Leveson's report. Read my blog on press abuse myths while I'm locked in http://hackinginquiry.org/debunking/ten-myths-about-press-abuse/

by Hugh Grant via twitter 11/29/2012 12:14:30 PM
Funny how none of the papers have leaked the Leveson inquiry findings.

by TheRealJackDee via twitter 11/29/2012 12:17:26 PM
Hacked Off, which counts former Reuters and Independent journalist-turned academic Brian Cathcart among its founders, says its aim is a "free and accountable press".

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:18:06 PM
Its detractors say it will pave the way for state regulation of the press but Hacked Off says it has not proposed any particular form of regulation, instead calling for an "effective" system "independent of both the government and the press industry".

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:18:14 PM
The same newspapers who argued last week for more control of Twitter are outraged by independent regulation of them. #Leveson

by WillBlackWriter via twitter 11/29/2012 12:19:26 PM
"Time Gentlemen Please" - My exclusive blog for @LabourList ahead of the #Leveson statement http://labli.st/Ytpt5y

by John Prescott via twitter 11/29/2012 12:20:54 PM
Mr Clegg said: "A free press does not and cannot mean a press that is free to bully innocent people or to abuse grieving families"

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:21:38 PM
A Downing Street spokeswoman said Mr Clegg's request to make a separate statement was made to Speaker John Bercow, and it was his decision to grant it.

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:22:18 PM
Speaking in the Commons yesterday, Mr Cameron said: "This Government set up Leveson because of unacceptable practices in parts of the media and because of a failed regulatory system."

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:23:22 PM
He added: "I think we should try and work across party lines on this issue, it is right to meet with other party leaders about this issue and I will do so."

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:23:38 PM
"What matters most I believe is that we end up with an independent regulatory system that can deliver and in which the public have confidence."

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:23:51 PM
Protesters outside the QEII Conference Centre in central London

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:24:46 PM
Dozens of Tory MPs signed an open letter warning against statutory regulation this week - shortly after 42 of their colleagues called for tougher laws to curb newspapers' excesses.

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:25:34 PM
The latest group included "big beasts" Liam Fox and David Davis, media select committee chairman John Whittingdale and 1922 committee chairman Graham Brady.

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:25:42 PM
New levels of farce reached in Whitehall as the DPM and the PM both decide to make separate statements on Leveson #leveson

by Angela Eagle via twitter 11/29/2012 12:27:10 PM
The Spectator, the country's oldest political magazine, insisted it would refuse to join any regulatory system enforced by the Government, while News International's chief executive Tom Mockridge backed calls for a "tough" new press watchdog but warned that state-backed regulation would put too much power in politicians' hands.

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:27:34 PM
Christopher Jefferies, wrongly arrested for the murder of Joanna Yeates, said it would be "unacceptable" for Mr Cameron not to adopt any recommendation to introduce some form of statutory regulation

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:27:58 PM
A poll last night found majority public support for statutory regulation, with 51% in favour, 20% opposed and 29% unsure.

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:28:26 PM
If a nation's press is not free, then neither are the people. #Leveson

by TonyParsonsUK via twitter 11/29/2012 12:30:06 PM
The ComRes survey for ITV News At Ten, which interviewed 2,038 adults online from November 23-25, found 48% believed the current system was insufficiently tough while 28% thought it about right.

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:30:22 PM
The Leveson Inquiry took evidence from 378 people over 12 months - many of them very well-known faces from the celebrity world, who recounted their experiences with the press.

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:32:14 PM
Actress Sienna Miller recounted how personal information appeared in the press

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:33:58 PM
One thing I do want to see from #Leveson - equal prominence / position of corrections and apologies

by Madscouser72 via twitter 11/29/2012 12:35:34 PM
The forthcoming separate statements on Leveson from the PM and his deputy have come under fire from the House of Lords.

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:36:38 PM
Both statements will be repeated in the House of Lords - a situation that Cabinet minister Lord Strathclyde described as "unprecedented in living memory".

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:36:50 PM
Deputy leader of Labour peers, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, said: "It really is a genuine first when the Coalition is so comprehensively divided that we have to go through this ludicrous episode this afternoon."

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:37:14 PM
He asked Lord Strathclyde: "When you speak are you going to speak for the Government? When Lord McNally speaks will he speak on behalf of the Government. Or do we have two governments, or no government?"

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:37:34 PM
Comic Steve Coogan told the inquiry he had been the subject of a 'sociopathic sting' by the News of the World

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:40:12 PM
Journalists outside QE2 centre in Westminster crouch awkwardly on stone steps, slaving over cold laptops waiting for Leveson report

by Peter Woodman via twitter edited by Amy Crowther, Press... 11/29/2012 12:43:26 PM
Downing Street feels even colder than normal! Perhaps it's the frostiness between the PM and DPM on Leveson rolling down Whitehall?

by JamesEdgarPA via twitter edited by Amy Crowther, Press... 11/29/2012 12:43:41 PM
The main man, the main event: Lord Justice Leveson with the report

by Paul McGurk, Press Association 11/29/2012 12:43:50 PM
Press gather on Downing Street to report on the Leveson Report pbs.twimg.com/media/A83gyG2CYAE0Sph.jpg

by JamesEdgarPA via twitter edited by Amy Crowther, Press... 11/29/2012 12:43:53 PM
Tourists show more interest in Emir of Kuwait's visit to Westminster Abbey than Leveson media circus opposite

by Peter Woodman via twitter edited by Amy Crowther, Press... 11/29/2012 12:47:18 PM