Exclusive: Ipso head declines private invite after receiving 12,000 complaints about Jeremy Clarkson Sun column attacking Meghan
If all had gone to plan, the chair of the UK’s main press regulator would have spent Monday night enjoying a private dinner at Rupert Murdoch’s Mayfair flat.
Faulks, a peer and former Conservative minister, is chair of the Independent Press Standards Organisation , which oversees the output of Murdoch’s British newspapers. The Sun has now removed Clarkson’s column from its website, while the piece has attracted 12,000 complaints – almost as many as Ipso received about all stories in the whole of 2021.
After facing a backlash over the comments, Clarkson issued a statement: “Oh dear. I’ve rather put my foot in it. In a column I wrote about Meghan, I made a clumsy reference to a scene in Game of Thrones and this has gone down badly with a great many people. I’m horrified to have caused so much hurt and I shall be more careful in future.”
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