It's probably more that the tories offered to be laxer about press regs in exchange for this - note of course that this sort of shit is SOP, a lot of newspaper campaigns in the UK are dreamt up by the government in power, and then they pitch it to the government's allied newspapers and the newspapers then "pressure" the government to implement the policy the government came up with to begin with.
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Date: 2014-05-20 02:15 pm (UTC)