Cameron faces split over press regulation

British prime minister David Cameron warned the newspaper regulation system is unacceptable, as he received a key judicial report into the Rupert Murdoch phone-hacking scandal.

His comments came ahead of today’s publication of findings by senior judge Brian Leveson from a year-long inquiry into press ethics, which are expected to include recommendations for statutory regulation.

But The Spectator, Britain’s oldest political magazine, said it would refuse to sign up to any government-enforced regulator system, and other newspapers warned that introducing new laws were a threat to 300 years of press freedom.