Joint Executive Director of Hacked Off Dr Evan Harris, responding to the news that the Palace is complaining to IPSO about the Sun’s front page story that the “Queen backs Brexit”, commented:"The Palace should bear in mind that IPSO is the regulator designed by papers like the Sun to serve the interests of papers like the Sun. So if the Queen receives satisfaction as a complainant she will be one of the lucky few. If she obtains a correction of anything like the equivalent size to the story she is complaining of then it will be because of her status, as this has never been made available to any of her subjects in the history of feeble press self-regulators."Four years ago the report of the Leveson Inquiry showed what a press regulator needed to be, in order for the public to have proper redress when newspapers behave appallingly. IPSO, by its own admission, falls far short of those Leveson standards and it does so because the big papers reject any meaningful accountability."The Queen might also reflect that it is only two days since David Dinsmore, Chief Operating Officer of the Murdoch company that owns the Sun, was convicted of breaching the Sexual Offences Act by identifying in the paper the teenage victim of a sex crime, and that the senior associate editor of The Sun, Trevor Kavanagh, is on the Board of the supposedly “independent” regulator."

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