Responding to the Prime Minister's comments to the Commons Liaison Committee regarding the Royal Charter for self-regulation of the press, a spokesman for Hacked Off said:"We welcome the Prime Minister's reiteration of support for the cross-party royal charter and his acknowledgment that the draft put forward by sections of the press is deficient in key respects."

The Prime Minister was also right to urge the press to set up a regulator that is consistent with seeking recognition from the body which will be established under the cross-party agreement."

The inadequacies of the PressBoF charter mean that it cannot be approved by the Privy Council and is effectively dead in the water."

If the PressBoF charter is redundant, then so is IPSO, the scheme put forward by the same group of press proprietors as a weaker alternative to the independent and effective self-regulation system recommended by Lord Justice Leveson."

Victims of press intrusion will be pleased and relieved to hear David Cameron state clearly that the cross-party royal charter is the only game in town."

Victims agree with Lord Justice Leveson that if some sections of the press do not join the system immediately this is not an impasse but merely the trigger for the planned incentives and penalties to take effect."