The Spectator magazine has been sold to hedge fund tycoon and GB News’s biggest shareholder Sir Paul Marshall for £100m.
The title is one of the UK’s most influential political magazines and counts former prime minister Boris Johnson and ex-chancellor Nigel Lawson as past editors.
The transaction decouples it from the search to find new owners for the right-leaning Telegraph newspapers.
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It is possible Sir Paul could still buy the Daily and Sunday Telegraph papers.
The fate of the media assets has been thrown into question by the unravelling of a deal that would have seen RedBird IMI, a vehicle backed by Abu Dhabi state funding, take control of them.
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The takeover collapsed after the government intervened to block ownership of national newspapers by funds emanating from overseas governments.
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The £100m price tag will be viewed positively by sellers RedBird IMI, which paid £600m for the magazine and Telegraph titles. Current editor Fraser Nelson said the sums “speaks to that belief in our potential”.
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Aged 106 years old, The Spectator is said to be the world’s oldest magazine.
Sir Paul’s Old Queen Street Ventures Limited (OQS) also owns the website Unherd.
