Labour leader Miliband calls for review of newspaper regulations
Labour leader Ed Miliband has called for an independent review over newspaper regulations following the News of the World scandal.
Following the recent arrest of three journalists from the newspaper over phone hacking practices of prominent figures, Miliband has said that once the case is completed, a review of the processes monitoring newspapers should be undertaken.
"The press itself will want to look at how self-regulation can be made to work better because it clearly did not work very well in relation to these issues here,” he told The Guardian.
"It is not about government imposing this on the press... I think the review needs to have some independence, both from government and from those involved in the day-to-day running of newspapers.
"There has to be a sense that the future is not going to be like the past. Wider lessons have to be learned."
Media experts have already described Miliband’s decision to speak out about the media as ‘risky’, especially an organisation owned by News International’s Rupert Murdoch who is said to have used political influence in an attempt to have former Prime Minister Gordon Brown quash the investigation while he was still in office.