Pressure is mounting on the deputy prime minister to intervene on national security grounds in the Abu Dhabi-backed bid to buy the Telegraph newspapers.
Conservative MPs have demanded that Oliver Dowden use the National Security and Investment Act to investigate the United Arab Emirates’ takeover.
However, it is understood that the Cabinet Office is not expected to issue a call-in notice on the acquisition imminently, despite an American intervention in a UAE purchase of Fortress Investment Group, of the United States.
The Times has been told Dowden is “unforthcoming” on the demands issued by backbench MPs.
However, it is understood that he would not be able to indicate whether or not an investigation is imminent as he would be acting in a quasi-judicial role in
