A campaign group calling for reform of UK press-regulation has said it's a "humiliating and embarrassing" day for The Sun after they apologised for "seriously intruding" into Prince Harry's personal life. The board director of Hacked Off, Emma Jones, called for a police investigation following the "monumental decision". The settlement comes after a long-running legal dispute between the Duke of Sussex and News Group Newspapers (NGN) over privacy invasion. Report by Faragt. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Well, this is a monumental decision and it's also a monumental apology because it's been
00:06a humiliating climb down for The Sun. For years they've denied any wrongdoing and criminality
00:12and now they've come clean and said yes, there was criminality, there was wrongdoing at The
00:17Sun and they denied that at Leveson. They actually used that as an excuse for a public
00:21inquiry not to go ahead, the second part of Leveson. And now we're in this position where
00:26we're looking at potential perjury, we're looking at the fact that they've lied in committees,
00:33that for years there's been this potential cover-up. We won't be able to investigate
00:38what exactly that cover-up entails and that's why this agreement's been made today, I think,
00:43partly to make sure that the deletion of emails that's been talked about and the corporate
00:47cover-up that apparently executives oversaw is not going to be exposed.
00:54Well, surely this should now spark a police investigation because the evidence is now
00:59there, you know, the wrongdoing and the criminality is laid bare. For the police not to investigate
01:06this fully, they would have to have a really good excuse and I don't think there is one,
01:11you know, that's the job of the police. There's also, you know, the cancellation of Leveson
01:16Part 2. That's the first time a public inquiry's ever been cancelled by Matt Hancock in 2018.
01:22I think we can make our own assumptions about why that was but we're now looking to the
01:26Prime Minister and saying, you know, look what this corporate cover-up means, look what
01:32this newspaper have admitted to. If criminality took place, we need a re-instation of this
01:39public inquiry. So it will be very interesting to see what Keir Starmer, who, as Tom Watson
01:44says, if he believes in fairness, will do.
01:47I think the wording was very interesting. They're talking about unlawful behaviour in
01:52relation to The Sun. That's on the same scale, I think, as the unlawful behaviour that we
01:58saw at the News of the World and they were keen to sort of direct the attention to News
02:02of the World activity in relation to their apology to Harry but that admission of unlawful
02:07behaviour has never been made before. For The Sun to say that is huge, you know, it's
02:13humiliating and it's embarrassing but more than that, it means there should be now a
02:19full investigation. Justice was never going to be done while senior executives were allowed
02:24to point the finger at reporters who were merely doing their jobs. This has never been
02:28about the individual journalists who had to put up with a bullying culture and rules that
02:33were passed down by the senior executives. They were the ones who signed this off and
02:38they're the ones who've got off scot-free and actually people like Rebecca Brooks have
02:41been rewarded for their endeavours. So this is why this is important. We've always said
02:49at Hacked Off and I think the wider public have always said it's important that those
02:53senior corporate executives who are paid a huge amount of money should be brought to
02:58justice if they have behaved unlawfully and today they have admitted that they did.