UAE-backed deal could be ‘disastrous’ for UK government and freedom of press
MPs have attacked a proposed UAE-backed takeover of the Telegraph newspapers, warning it is impossible to “separate sheikh and state” and calling for further investigations to be launched before the takeover “turns into a disaster for the government”.
Julia Lopez, a media minister, was grilled in the Commons after the submission of an urgent question raising concerns over the Barclay family’s complex deal to transfer control of the Telegraph and the Spectator to RedBird IMI.
