{"id":3310,"date":"2022-08-04T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmediauk.org\/truss-matches-sunak-commitments-on-dmu-and-section-40\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T10:22:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T09:22:12","slug":"truss-matches-sunak-commitments-on-dmu-and-section-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmediauk.org\/blog\/2022\/08\/04\/truss-matches-sunak-commitments-on-dmu-and-section-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Truss Matches Sunak Commitments on DMU And Section 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liz Truss has matched Rishi Sunak\u2019s commitments to promote the sustainability of journalism by taking forward in the autumn the legislation underpinning the Digital Markets Unit and repealing Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Asked in an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/business\/liz-truss-crime-courts-act-digital-markets-consumer-9180792?utm_source=Society+of+Editors+Members&amp;utm_campaign=895b9f8b99-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_22_10_49_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_8056757ee1-895b9f8b99-189539473\">interview with the Eastern Daily Press<\/a> whether she would match Mr Sunak\u2019s commitments, given in&nbsp;<a href=\"\/Latest\/sunak-pledges-to-take-forward-dmu-legislation-in-autumn\">response to a letter<\/a> from News Media Association chief executive Owen Meredith, Ms Truss said: &#8220;I absolutely have already said that I will keep those commitments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Early in the Conservative leadership campaign, the NMA approached all candidates to seek their views on key media industry issues.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the NMA, Mr Sunak said the long term sustainability of the vital news media industry could not be taken for granted and pledged to take forward the DMU legislation in the autumn and repeal Section 40 before the next general election.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Truss promises to protect media freedom and competition if elected PM <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aiyrTTRKwG\">https:\/\/t.co\/aiyrTTRKwG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Owen Meredith (@OwenMeredithNMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OwenMeredithNMA\/status\/1554079919482748929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liz Truss has matched Rishi Sunak&rsquo;s commitments to promote the sustainability of journalism by taking forward in the autumn the legislation underpinning the Digital Markets Unit and repealing Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013.<br \/>\nAsked in an&nbsp;interview with the Eastern Daily&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,1,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-markets-unit","category-news","category-pressfreedom","digital-markets-unit","news","pressfreedom"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Truss Matches Sunak Commitments on DMU And Section 40 - News Media Association<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newsmediauk.org\/blog\/2022\/08\/04\/truss-matches-sunak-commitments-on-dmu-and-section-40\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Truss Matches Sunak Commitments on DMU And Section 40 - News Media Association\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Liz Truss has matched Rishi Sunak&rsquo;s commitments to promote the sustainability of journalism by taking forward in the autumn the legislation underpinning the Digital Markets Unit and repealing Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013. 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