[ Daily Mail owner strikes £500m deal to buy TelegraphOpens in new window ]The Liberal Democrats culture spokesperson Anna Sabine also warned that allowing the deal would create a “deeply concerning precedent”. The Daily Telegraph and its Sunday sister paper have long been seen as the house papers of the Tory party, but increasingly in recent years they have shifted further to the right, sometimes surpassing even the Daily Mail in their radical populist slants. Staff at the Telegraph titles and Spectator were vehemently opposed to being taken over by a group linked to a Middle Eastern state with no freedom of the press. In the meantime, the future of the Telegraph titles remained up in the air. [ Daily Mail seeks final say in tortuous Telegraph saleOpens in new window ]
