After much editorial huffing and puffing, England's servile class decides to roll over and take one for the team:
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National newspaper editors on Wednesday accepted the challenge laid down by David Cameron by agreeing to create an independent press regulator that meets all but the most contentious of Lord Justice Leveson's recommendations.
Normally fiercely competitive tabloid and broadsheet titles agreed at a breakfast summit to 40 of Leveson's first 47 proposals – paving the way for the creation of a new regulator with powers to levy fines of up to £1m. It would also operate a low-cost tribunal system to handle libel and privacy claims.
However, the editors refused to sign up to seven of the recommendations, unveiled in a 2,000 page report last week, that proposed a role for Ofcom or another statutory body in auditing the work of the regulator. They agreed to wait and see what proposals No 10's fixer, the Cabinet Office minister Oliver Letwin, would offer in the coming days as an alternative. Those present effectively adopted the same anti-press law position outlined by Cameron in his response to the judge's report.
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