Mr. Rory Montgomery:

If I or Ms McKay reads, in the first instance, an article she or the members of the Press Council regard as clearly in breach of truth and accuracy, but nobody makes a complaint, then there is nothing we can do about it. That is the principle. As Ms McKay said, it has to be somebody who is personally affected. Previous ombudsmen have rather broadened the net as to what "personally affected" meant. If you now say something about a particular nationality, then a representative body or even a senior personality within that nationality could take a complaint. It is fairly broad, but we do not have the right to initiate cases ourselves.