When all three main political Parties agree on something, you just know it's wrong. And nowhere is that better demonstrated than this worrying proposal to regulate the Press. Any regulation must have the approval of the Press itself, otherwise it simply will not work. The Press' own suggestions on regulation have been rejected by a committee of the Privy Council and now the politicians are threatening to impose their own, which will be underpinned by statute, which we were reassured by David Cameron would not happen. Yesterday, in the Chamber, I and a handful of MPs raised serious doubts about this plan and our fear is that this will be the slippery slope to more and more control of the Press. We are told that the public are calling for this. Yes, a few vociferous voices have shouted very effectively from the rooftops, but I suspect that most people, like me, would rather have a free Press which, yes, does impose tough sanctions on itself, but ones that do not threaten the future of the written word and indeed smaller publications which could be closed by punitive fines. I should like to remind readers that the Leveson inquiry was set up following allegations of phone-hacking, which is already a criminal offence. This bandwagon of baying politicians smacks of vengeance, putting at risk one of the freedoms that millions died to preserve.