The Latest Breaking News from Spectator

Debt repayment will put group step closer to being controlled by consortium backed by UAE

Culture secretary steps in after 18 Tory MPs warn proposed sale ‘presents very real potential national security threat’

Move is a blow to proposed deal to transfer control of paper and Spectator magazine to UAE-backed consortium

Call for national security law to be used to investigate proposed deal involving consortium backed by UAE

Potential buyers include a consortium that has vowed to pay off the current owners’ debts, the Daily Mail owner and a GB News investor

Jeff Zucker is the last highflyer in the American media business. He may be the last person totally in love with media — a mass market showman, a publicity seeker, a man comfortable with, perhaps addicted to, the deadly politics of media organisations. He has been killed off several times…

Former Telegraph editor Charles Moore among those to condemn bid for the Conservative party’s paper of choice

Deal could be referred to Ofcom but some analysts say concerns about foreign influence may be overstated

Foreign Office could stifle possible inquiry into bid from Abu Dhabi-backed fund RedBird IMI in absence of cabinet secretary

Jeff Zucker of Abu Dhabi-backed Redbird IMI insists editorial independence of titles would be protected

One of the investors bidding for the paper is the vice-president of the UAE, which is ranked far down the press freedom index