A Labour peer has weighed into the lobbying row which has engulfed parliament by accusing the newspapers who collaborated with Panorama to break the story of conducting their own ‘Leveson agenda’.
Labour peer Lord Soley told BBC Radio 4’s The World This Weekend claomed to have warned colleagues to be on ‘alert’ following the Leveson inquiry, predicting that the press would attempt to seek vengeance by ‘trying to target’ MPs and peers.
Soley said: “I’ve said it to both MPs and peers at times ‘Be very alert at the moment’ because there is a call for proper regulation of the press.
“That doesn’t justify anything that may or may not have happened but I recognise there is a Leveson agenda here.”
In response to the latest allegations the government has committed itself to creating a statutory register of lobbyists before the end of the current parliament".