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Will Sunak renege on ‘foreign powers’ owning newspapers?

25 March 2024

3:15 AM

25 March 2024

3:15 AM

Last week, a rebellion in the Lords drew a government pledge to ban foreign governments and their proxies from owning British newspapers and magazines. It was a historic moment for the defence of press freedom in the era of acquisitive, well-connected autocracies. It will have global significance. But the devil was always going to lie in the detail, and that will come in the third reading of the Digital Markets Bill due Tuesday.

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