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Key moments from the Leveson Inquiry

Almost 18 months ago the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics began and it set off a long and exhaustive process of examining the culture, practices and ethics of the press. On Wednesday, 24 hours before the publication of the Leveson Report, the document will be delivered under strict embargo to No 10. A team stands ready to parse, analyse and otherwise dissect the judge's findings: Craig Oliver, the PM's communications chief; Ed Llewellyn, his chief of staff; Oliver Dowden, his senior political adviser; Sir Jeremy Heywood, the Cabinet Secretary; and the Prime Minister himself. Others will surely weigh in with their assessments. But this group -- the so-called "L Team" -- is steeling itself for what they expect to be one of the most testing moments of Cameron's premiership. Since announcing the inquiry in July 2011, the PM has grasped that he must respond swiftly and decisively to Lord Justice Leveson, that this is an occasion where his countenance will be scrutinised as closely as his words. Is he in command of events or at their mercy? Has his grip, sometimes found wanting in the course of 2012, tightened as the year draws to a close? Small wonder that the PM's aides have been so carefully "gaming" (as they describe it) the likely outcome of the report's publication. So let us do the same. Across Whitehall, it is widely expected that Leveson will recommend some form of statutory regulation. Much honour is due to Lord Hunt, the chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, and Lord Black of Brentwood, chairman of the Press Standards Board of Finance, who have laboured long and hard, with intelligence and patience, to show how tougher self-regulation might work. But -- regrettably -- almost nobody in Westminster anticipates a report that simply endorses the Hunt-Black model, which is simply not enough to assuage Leveson's righteous anger. As Tarantino might script it, he's gonna get statutory on us. Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknew... Get the latest headlines http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ Subscribe to The Telegraph http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... Like us on Facebook   / telegraph.co.uk   Follow us on Twitter   / telegraph   Follow us on Google+ https://plus.google.com/1028913550727... Telegraph.co.uk and    / telegraphtv   are websites of The Daily Telegraph, the UK's best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.