Take it to your party
Parties change their policy when their own members ask them to. A motion at a local party meeting can reach conference, and conference sets what a party stands for in Parliament and at the next election.
This isn’t a left or right issue. Support for every measure in the Act outweighs opposition among the voters of every party. Pick yours below.
CONSERVATIVE
It was a Conservative government that banned foreign states from owning British newspapers, in 2024. When the limit for state-owned investors was raised from the 5% the Conservatives had proposed to 15% in 2025, 41 Conservative peers broke with their own front bench to oppose it. The Media Freedom Act applies the same principle to foreign-based billionaires, and 65% of Conservative voters back a ban on foreign ownership of our national media, with 74% wanting national newspapers to join a regulator independent of the owners.
THE ASK: Raise the Act at your association, and ask your MP and any peers you know to back measure 1.
GREEN
At Autumn Conference 2026 the party passed B04, its new Culture, Media and Sport policy. It includes a levy on large social media corporations to fund local and independent journalism, a 20% cap on any one company’s share of the press, independent regulation, and think-tank transparency. It says nothing yet about where media owners live, and the policy working group has said it left that open for later policy development. 65% of Green voters back a ban on foreign ownership of our national media.
THE ASK: Ask your local party to support a Spring 2027 motion on foreign ownership, which we are discussing with the Culture, Media and Sport policy working group.
LABOUR
Labour backed Leveson’s recommendations in 2012, and the labour movement knows what concentrated media power has meant for working people. Thousands of journalists have lost their jobs while around £31 billion a year of UK advertising goes to Google, Meta and Amazon. 75% of Labour voters back a levy on large social media corporations to fund local and independent journalism, and 82% want national newspapers to join a regulator independent of the owners.
THE ASK: Ask your constituency Labour party to back the Act, and your union to support it through the affiliated route, ahead of Labour conference in 2027.
LIBERAL DEMOCRAT
Your party already backs two of our measures: a levy on very large social media companies to fund local journalism (motion F24, Democracy and Public Debate, 2022) and independent, Leveson-compliant press regulation (the 2024 manifesto). Liberal Democrats in Parliament fought to keep the limit on foreign state ownership of newspapers at 5% in 2025. What the party doesn’t yet have is a policy on where media owners live, and 70% of Liberal Democrat voters back a ban on foreign ownership of our national media.
THE ASK: Propose our model motion at your local party AGM (in England, AGMs fall between 1 October and 30 November), or to your local party Executive. It can then go forward to Spring Conference 2027.
PLAID CYMRU
Wales deserves news made in Wales and answerable to Wales. Under the Act, the levy on the social media giants would fund an independent trust for Wales to support Welsh local, independent and co-operative news. In Wales, 66% back a ban on foreign ownership of our national media, and 66% back the levy, against 7% opposed.
THE ASK: Ask your branch to back the Act, and to take it to Plaid’s national conference.
REFORM UK
Parliament has stopped foreign states from controlling our newspapers. Nothing stops foreign-based billionaires. If you want to take back control, it has to include who owns our media: 67% of Reform UK voters back a ban on foreign ownership of our national media, 70% want national newspapers to join a regulator independent of the owners, and 78% want think tanks to publish who funds them.
THE ASK: Raise the Act at your branch, and with your Reform UK councillors and MP.
SNP
Scotland’s news shouldn’t be owned and decided from somewhere else. The levy would fund an independent trust for Scotland, and because press regulation is devolved, Holyrood would decide how the complaints authority works in Scotland. In Scotland, 62% back a ban on foreign ownership of our national media, and 64% back the levy, against 10% opposed.
THE ASK: Ask your branch to back the Act, and to send a resolution to SNP conference.
Tell us how it went
Whatever happens, let us know: who proposed it, where, and the result. A motion passed is a local news story, and we’ll help you tell it. Email dmc@mediasovereignty.org.