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After just seven weeks, a Parliamentary Petition demanding that the government pass the Media Sovereignty Act has reached the necessary threshold of 10,000 signatures. This means that the Labour government now has to state its position on the domination of British politics, through the hijacking of our media, by a tiny billionaire elite.

We do not have a free democracy, as our media is captured by a tiny billionaire elite.

The Media Sovereignty Act has five demands:

• Ban foreign media ownership.
• Ban the concentration of UK national media ownership by one person or corporation.
• Fund independent and local media with a social media levy.
• Require national media to be under the remit of the statutory regulator.
• Require dark-money funded think-tanks that are covered by the media to declare donations in real time. 

Director of the Media Sovereignty Campaign Donnachadh McCarthy said: “In my extensive career, I have come across visceral fear of ‘the Daily Mail test’ across all sections of British society and its establishments. It is time to end this billionaire hijacking of our democracy once and for all.”

Co-Director, Caspar Hughes, said: “I believe deeply that the most urgent political issue of our time is ending the hijacking of political power by the billionaire media owners. They persuade the UK population to vote against their own best interests, and this must stop.”

Notes to Editors:

1. Once the government has provided its response to the petition, the campaign will then ramp up to get the necessary 100,000 signatures, which then requires the government to consider the petition for debate in Parliament.

2. Read the full text of the draft Media Sovereignty Act on our website: https://mediasovereignty.org/full-draft/

3. This is the link to the Media Sovereignty Act Campaign Petition: https://mediasovereignty.org/petition/

4. The parliamentary petition backing the Media Sovereignty Act has support in every single constituency in the United Kingdom: https://petitionmap.unboxedconsulting.com/?petition=760061