UK publishers are increasingly confident Boris Johnson’s government will pass Australia-style legislation forcing Google and Meta to pay for news.

If Britain follows the pattern of Australia, the threat of legislation could lead to UK publishers being paid around £200m a year by the two tech giants.

The move comes some five years after Press Gazette launched its Duopoly campaign, which called for a fairer deal between tech giants and publishers as the pair sucked billions of ad revenue out of the UK digital ecosystem