Hugh Grant was among the many campaigners outdoors the Labour Occasion Convention on the ACC Liverpool on Monday afternoon.
The Heretic actor, 65, joined campaigners from Hacked Off and 38 Levels in Liverpool on Monday.
The actor has been a vocal supporter of each teams for a while and was seen shaking arms and chatting with a lot of his fellow campaigners.
He carried an indication studying ‘Britain deserves a greater press,’ and smiled for a promotional shot with the group.
Hugh and Jacqui Hames have just lately launched a brand new marketing campaign to calling for the introduction of a brand new legislation to ‘defend the general public from press lies and abuse’.
Sharing a hyperlink to the marketing campaign the actor wrote on X: ‘Extra now then ever, in a world by which fact and sincere reporting is dying in entrance of our eyes, let’s put a hearth below weak politicians and get an honest, courageous UK press.’
As of September 29, the petition has 35,000 signatures, with an intention to get to 40,000.
The petition particulars: ‘For too lengthy, the UK press have bullied folks, harassed grieving households, and destroyed lives, all to promote papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking penalties.
‘They’ve hacked telephones, listened to non-public messages, and revealed folks’s private data for revenue. Again and again, components of the UK press have proven that they will’t be trusted.’
The Notting Hill star was one of many celebrities who was affected by the cellphone hacking scandal in 2012.
Hugh settled a declare in opposition to NGN regarding illegal data gathering on the Information Of The World in 2012 and in 2024 settled a lawsuit in opposition to The Solar in 2024.
Hugh has been a vocal political activist, spending the final decade, even admitting that he thought of a profession in politics at one level.
‘It has crossed my thoughts. However what I actually see shut up is that it’s nearly inconceivable to really get something accomplished. It’s simply inconceivable. You’ve bought to convey so many individuals with you,’ He instructed Leisure Weekly.
In the identical interview, he defined: ‘I used to be actually not all for politics in any respect till I used to be about 50. I sneered at politics, after which, I discovered myself campaigning concerning the abuse of energy within the British tabloid press right here within the UK I spent an terrible lot of time within the Home of Parliament lobbying politicians and bought to know them up shut and see what bizarre specimens they had been or grew to become in the midst of their careers.
‘Fairly often beginning with conviction and fervour and ending up a few many years later, these barely monstrous professionals of the political recreation of snakes and ladders.
‘Their priorities had been 1.) their very own profession, 2.) their very own social gathering and smashing the opposite social gathering, and someplace, approach down the record, was what’s good for the nation.’
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