Sir Keir Starmer insisted that a final decision on whether to go ahead with a loosening of the current copyright regulations had not yet been taken after a consultation on the issue closed earlier this week.
Speaking during his trip to Washington this week, Starmer signalled that he was open to compromise, saying: “All that’s happened is there’s been a consultation.”
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Read MoreThe Government has found itself in an increasingly uncomfortable position over its copyright proposals after a groundswell of opposition among figures from Sir Paul McCartney and Kate Bush to technicians and engineers. Labour backbenchers are known to have approached party whips to express concern at the level of grassroots anger amid calls for the issue to be revisited.
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Read MoreCritics say such an approach will undermine a world-leading segment of the British economy, worth some £126bn a year, and risk livelihoods by removing control over the use of creative work from its creators.
But while the Prime Minister insists he wants creatives to “thrive”, his business secretary Peter Kyle, who has been accused of being too close to tech companies, insisted this week that he would not succumb to external pressure.
Mr Kyle told Sky News: “I’m really open minded about how we move forward, but there’s one principle I have: I will not have one side forcing me to make a choice between one or the other.”
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