Spectator editor Fraser Nelson has suggested his publication may leave IPSO after the press regulator upheld a complaint against The Sun over a Jeremy Clarkson column about Meghan Markle.

In an article published to both The Spectator website and that of sister title The Telegraph on Saturday, Nelson claimed that the ruling “puts IPSO in violation of its own charter” and “has torn up” protections for opinion.

IPSO’s ruling, published at 10pm on Friday, said Clarkson had made “pejorative and prejudicial reference” to the Duchess of Sussex’s gender in a December article in which he described his “hate” for her.