I agree wholeheartedly with my right hon. Friend, not least because, as he points out, one of the jobs of a Secretary of State is to look forward and consider how to solve the problems of today. The problems of local newspapers are not a marginal or side issue. More than 200 local papers have closed in the past decade and a bit, including local papers in my patch. I do not want to see that accelerated by the actions of this House, and that is what would happen if we do not take the course of action I have proposed today.
Leveson Inquiry
Proceeding contribution from
Matt Hancock
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 1 March 2018.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Leveson Inquiry.
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