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Edward Leigh Excerpts

Thursday 16th March 2017 Commons Chamber

[Karen Bradley]

Ofcom has assured me that it has the time and the powers that it needs, and I look forward to seeing its report in due course.

[Sir Edward Leigh (Gainsborough) (Con)]

Does my right hon. Friend agree that the freedom of the press, and indeed of press ownership, is a bastion of our liberties? It is for Ofcom—objectively, not subjectively—to define, as a narrow term of art, a fit and proper person; it is not for Ministers and politicians to get involved in this.