Spectator chairman urges ministers to block ‘absurd’ Abu Dhabi-backed takeover
The chairman of The Spectator has said it would be “absurd” for a “dictatorship” to own the right-wing magazine as he rallied against a potential takeover by an Abu Dhabi-backed fund.
Andrew Neil told the BBC he would quit his role with the 200-year-old publication if the takeover goes ahead.
In his first public comments on the proposed deal, the journalist and broadcaster said the potential for The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator to be owned by a group headed up by senior rulers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), an authoritarian Gulf state, “beggars
