A vigil for former Cambridge professor Jason Arday has descended into furious accusations against Britain’s media, with campaigners demanding a public inquiry and tighter press regulation.

Tom Slater on the Jason Arday vigil, incendiary ‘lynching’ claims and the push to silence Britain’s press — plus Labour stalls North Sea drilling, and Angela Rayner clears the way for more traveller sites Peer Lord Simon Woolley declared that Arday had been publicly “assassinated” and “lynched” — but the explosive words were conspicuously missing from footage distributed to news organisations by…