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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 2 December 2025

Debate

Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) (No. 2) Regulations 2025

Contribution

As my noble friend Lady Stowell of Beeston says, the path to get to this point has been rather longer than any of us expected or would have wished. Delay does have a price for investors and vendors, as well as for readers and journalists, of our newspapers. My noble friend Lady Stowell has taken the opportunity to ask some questions about whether and when we might expect a conclusion to this for the sake of the Daily Telegraph, and more broadly, whether the Government will look again at the Enterprise Act regime to make sure that future scenarios do not have to play out at such length.

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