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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Harry Taylor

Lord Rothermere’s Telegraph takeover strengthens UK media’s rightwing tilt

Copies of The Daily Telegraph are displayed on a rack in a supermarket
Daily Mail and General Trust has agreed a £500m deal with the Daily Telegraph’s owners, RedBird IMI, to buy the title. Photograph: Belinda Jiao/Reuters

As the dust settles from the battle for the ownership of the Daily Telegraph, one man has been left standing: Lord Rothermere, whose family have been a mainstay of British newspapers for more than a century.

“This is a very British stitch-up,” said Lionel Barber, the former editor of the Financial Times. “Lord Rothermere has played a very astute poker hand, he’s shown patience and he’s the big winner.”

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