Newspapers warned they will face threat of full-blown state regulation if they do not accept royal charter The government's proposals for press regulation were thrown further into disarray when Hacked Off, the pressure group which helped draft the charter, admitted it was flawed and asked for it to be changed. It said there was an "unforeseen problem" with the charter which left internet bloggers and "citizen journalists" exposed to the threat of punitive damages in court if they are sued and have not signed up to the new body. Although Downing Street claimed earlier this week that the new regime would not affect bloggers, Hacked Off is concerned that they will be dragged into it by "bad government drafting" of the charter. Yesterday the lobbying group wrote to the leaders of all three main political parties asking them to amend the charter to exclude all not-for-profit publishers from new regulation. Lord Ashdown, the former Liberal Democrat leader, accused David Cameron of a huge "strategic blunder" by pulling out of talks on the creation of the press regulator last week, only to cave in to Labour and the Lib Dems at the last minute when it became clear he faced defeat in the Commons if it went to a vote. In an interview with BBC Radio 4"s The Week in Westminster, to be broadcast today, he said: "He marched his troops up to the top of the hill and then he had to march them back down again. In terms of strategy, this seems to me to make the Grand Old Duke of York look like a military genius. Meanwhile Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, admitted on the BBC's Question Time that he is "uncomfortable about politicians themselves deciding how the press should be regulated."