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Lord Fox (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 16 October 2025

Debate

Telegraph Media Group: Ownership

Contribution

My Lords, I associate myself with all the comments about the Lord Speaker—or, at least, with all those that we have heard so far. As we know, a fund with Abu Dhabi money, and probably Chinese money, is acquiring what in global terms is a small media player. It is relatively small, but the Telegraph is significant in the UK, and the best explanation of their motives that I can come up with is that they are buying influence. With that in mind, will the Minister commit that her department will investigate any prima facie breaches of the orders protecting the Telegraph from influence by RedBird—breaches that may already have occurred? Will she commit to publishing the investigation’s findings?

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