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Boris Johnson in Talks Over Telegraph Bid

by Richard Eldred
12 August 2024 7:00 PM
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Boris Johnson has explored a potential role at the Telegraph with former cabinet colleague Nadhim Zahawi, who is spearheading a consortium to acquire the newspaper. The Telegraph has the story.

A source close to Mr. Johnson downplayed the talks, saying that no substantial discussions had taken place. That is despite speculation that Mr. Johnson could be made the Telegraph’s Global Editor-in-Chief.

The former Prime Minister has close ties to the newspaper, having served as its Brussels correspondent before becoming a columnist.

He now writes a weekly column for the Daily Mail, for which he reportedly earns a six-figure salary. Mr. Johnson was also due to join GB News earlier this year to help helm its election coverage, but never took up the role.

Mr. Johnson appointed Mr. Zahawi as Chancellor in the final days of his administration in 2022 following a string of high-profile resignations. He held the position for just two months.

The involvement of Mr. Johnson, which was first reported by Sky News, could help to drum up interest from investors.

Mr. Zahawi is thought to have approached a number of billionaires as he seeks to assemble a consortium to table a bid for the Telegraph and the Spectator, which has also been put up for sale by Abu Dhabi-backed fund RedBird IMI.

He is one of a handful of suitors to have made it through to the second round of the auction, which is being overseen by bankers at Robey Warshaw and Raine.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Boris JohnsonNadhim ZahawiThe SpectatorThe Telegraph

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
9 months ago

Johnson should be in clink and that is at a minimum. Anybody associating with this insult to humanity is necessarily tarred with the same brush. As far as I am concerned The Telegraph can wither and die, it won’t be missed. And that goes for the Speccie too.

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FerdIII
FerdIII
9 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Absolutely. The Fat Pig Dictator. Circa 620 of the members of Pharmament ss well. Fake virus, a pandemic of fascism, stupid, profits, graft and corruption.

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Insurrectionist
Insurrectionist
9 months ago

Joke, what a pair of pro “vaccine” and lockdown zealots.. I will never forget Zahawi for his utter contempt for school children during the scandemic, disgusting pair of individuals

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
9 months ago
Reply to  Insurrectionist

👍 👍 👍

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Mogwai
Mogwai
9 months ago
Reply to  Insurrectionist

If you had the billions in the bank that Elon Musk does I’m sure you could get away with this. It seems appropriate for these unflushable turds. However, now the UK has morphed into ‘Brave New Clown World’ it’s probably not worth running the risk;

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1823076043017630114

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Mogwai
Mogwai
9 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Example here. This poor woman is remanded in custody just for posting words online. The judge very considerately postponed her hearing until next month, so that’s very nice for her. So she’ll have done 3 weeks in jail before she even has her day in court;

”A Northampton childminder, who has been charged with publishing written material to stir up racial hatred, has been remanded in custody until at least September.
Lucy Connolly appeared at Northampton Crown Court on Monday (August 12) after she was arrested on August 6 and then re-arrested on August 9.

The 41-year-old appeared before Judge Adrienne Lucking, but the hearing was adjourned and no plea was entered.

Judge Lucking adjourned the case and set a new, provisional hearing date of Monday September 2.”

https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/crime/northampton-childminder-remanded-in-custody-until-at-least-september-after-court-hearing-adjourned-4739191

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
9 months ago
Reply to  Insurrectionist

His famous last words…..There will be no vaccine passports, that is not the British way. As we know, that aged well!

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
9 months ago

He’s not aged well has he?

Two utterly repellent, morally bankrupt fake conservatives involved running two of the UK’s supposedly premier supposedly “right leaning” publications. What joy!

Presume De Pfeffel’s contribution would be “intellectual” rather than financial as I thought he didn’t have a pot to piss in.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
9 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Intellectual

🤣

Intellectually idle, perhaps. As QC Lord Sumption described him.

Last edited 9 months ago by Marcus Aurelius knew
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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
9 months ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

lol I’d forgotten Sumption said that

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DickieA
DickieA
9 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Language please!

“He hasn’t got a pot in which to piss”.

All part of the service.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
9 months ago
Reply to  DickieA

Thanks!

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Gerry England
Gerry England
9 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

I thought lying was the Oaf’s only talent.

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stewart
stewart
9 months ago

Who cares?

I will never really understand the UKs obsession with Boris Johnson.

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Smotters
Smotters
9 months ago
Reply to  stewart

Agree 100%. A man worthy of an Oscar Wilde put down. The myth of Johnson that beguiled so many in his party, with the baffling outcome of his coronation, is a truly terrifying phenomenon. As his boss, Max Hastings, said of him in 2012, “Only in the star-crazed, frivolous Britain of the 21st century could such a man have risen so high, and he is utterly unfit to go higher still.”

Last edited 9 months ago by Smotters
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kev
kev
9 months ago
Reply to  Smotters

Worthy of being put down, certainly.

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Smotters
Smotters
9 months ago
Reply to  kev

🙂

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Gerry England
Gerry England
9 months ago
Reply to  Smotters

And yet still many believe he is the saviour of the Tory party and that they should never have got rid of him. He is a metropolitan liberal and only ‘right wing’ in the fevered imaginations of the Guardian and BBC, neither noted for their accuracy and truth.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
9 months ago

Shakespeare had Johnson’s character down to a T in Nick Bottom, comedy relief occasionally featuring a donkey’s head.

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