Telegraph sale presents potential national security threat, Tory MPs say
by Patrick Daly
Nov 29, 2023
3 minutes
A host of Conservative MPs have written to the deputy prime minister urging him to use national security powers to review the potential sale of the Daily Telegraph.
Ministers are being asked to intervene after RedBird IMI, an investment fund owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, vice-president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), reached a deal to purchase the broadsheet newspaper and The Spectator magazine.
In a letter co-ordinated by Neil O’Brien, who was a health minister until the reshuffle a fortnight ago, the
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