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When News Corporation wanted to fully take over BSkyB, George Osborne said that "public interest" was of the utmost importance: "We would never allow the public interest to subjugate to the commercial interest or the vested interest."Since 2011, the letters that the royal family write to ministers and government departments have been exempt from the Freedom of Information Act under Section 37. Before the 2010 election, the Conservative Party made democratic accountability and transparency in politics a key focus of their campaign. This, apparently, didn't extend to the royal family.If I'm working on a particular story in particular circumstances, do I or do I not have the public interest on my side? The answer very often is: I don't have the faintest idea because we don't know where the boundary lines are." – The Guardian's Nick Davies
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