Axel Springer gutting the Telegraph harms us all
New Statesman · 5 Nov 2026

Axel Springer gutting the Telegraph harms us all

Tele-geddon! Some of the best-known right-wing writers in Britain are among 100-plus journalists being sacked by the Daily Telegraph’s new German owners, Axel Springer. It’s led, perhaps inevitably, to rumours of a conspiracy between Springer and Labour to “take out” a range of the most potent pro-Brexit voices in the country in return for allowing the £575m takeover to go ahead in June.


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