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Public Confidence in the Media and Police

If the hon. Gentleman is referring to the previous Administration, what he says is exactly correct. It is certainly true that representatives went to see the Prime Minister. They also came to see me. I had a discussion with them—they were entitled to their view—and I said, ““We will have a public interest defence, but we will also have this increase in penalties to two years' imprisonment on the statute book,”” and both happened. It is there on the face of the Act. I would have introduced—