The actor proudly held his join among the many crowd on Monday afternoon

Hugh Grant was amongst the crowds campaigning exterior the Labour Get together Convention on the ACC Liverpool on Monday afternoon. The 65-year-old actor joined campaigners from Hacked Off and 38 Levels in Liverpool on Monday.

Grant has been a vocal supporter of each teams for a while and was seen shaking palms and talking with lots of his fellow campaigners. He held an indication which learn ‘Britain deserves a greater press,’ and beamed for a photograph the group.

Hugh and journalist Jacqui Hames have not too long ago launched a brand new marketing campaign which requires the introduction of a brand new legislation to ‘shield 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 reality and trustworthy reporting is dying in entrance of our eyes, let’s put a fireplace underneath weak politicians and get a good, courageous UK press.”

The petition has 35,000 signatures as of September 29 with an intention to get to 40,000, the Metro reviews.

It 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 printed folks’s private info for revenue. Repeatedly, elements of the UK press have proven that they’ll’t be trusted.”

The Bridget Jones star was among the many stars who had been affected by the notorious cellphone hacking sandal in 2012.

Hugh settled a declare towards NGN referring to illegal info gathering on the Information Of The World in 2012 and in 2024 settled a lawsuit towards The Solar.

The star has been a vocal political activist over the previous ten years, confessing that he thought of a profession in politics at one level.

He advised Leisure Weekly: “It has crossed my thoughts. However what I actually see shut up is that it’s nearly unattainable to really get something carried out. It’s simply unattainable. You’ve obtained to deliver so many individuals with you.”

In the identical interview, he defined: “I used to be actually not fascinated with politics in any respect till I used to be about 50.

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“I sneered at politics, after which, I discovered myself campaigning in regards to 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 obtained to know them up shut and see what bizarre specimens they had been or turned in the midst of their careers.

“Fairly often beginning with conviction and keenness and ending up a few a long time 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 celebration and smashing the opposite celebration, and someplace, approach down the record, was what’s good for the nation.”