Recommendation L82: Party Policy on Press Relations
From An Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press, published 29 November 2012.
Recommendation
As a first step, political leaders should reflect constructively on the merits of publishing on behalf of their party a statement setting out, for the public, an explanation of the approach they propose to take as a matter of party policy in conducting relationships with the press.
Government response
No government response to this recommendation is on the record yet.
Recommendation context
Site note: No response to this recommendation was found. It is addressed to political leaders. The Prime Minister's statement of 29 November 2012 accepts, for the Government, the recommendation on disclosing further information about contact between politicians and the press (recommendation 83), and does not mention this one. Searched for this site between 23 and 25 September 2026, among other sources: the Prime Minister's statements to the House of Commons of 29 November 2012 and 18 March 2013, the Government's response to the consultation on the Leveson Inquiry and its implementation (1 March 2018), the Information Commissioner's response to the report (7 January 2013), and Parliament's written questions and answers that mention Leveson.
Blanket government agreement does not establish acceptance or delivery by each addressee. Some response passages cover groups of recommendations.
Scope of the government response
PM David Cameron responded to all 92 recommendations with a single statement accepting them "in principle" or "in part". No per-recommendation response was published.
Delivery
No statement on delivery from Politicians has been found in the sources searched (last checked 24 February 2026). This is separate from the response above.