Tory MPs Claim Sale of Telegraph to UAE Investment Vehicle is ‘National Security Threat’

Eighteen Conservative MPs have written to the deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, urging him to “pause” the sale of the Daily Telegraph newspaper to an investment fund owned by the vice-president of the United Arab Emirates, which they say is a “potential national security threat.” In the letter, the MPs—led by former Health Minister Neil O’Brien—called on Mr. Dowden to use powers he has under the National Security and Investment Act, which can prevent the sale of infrastructure and other key assets to entities controlled by other countries. The letter, co-signed by the former Tory Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith and the chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, Alicia Kearns, said the UAE had, “increasingly close relations with China.”...