National security inquiry into French billionaire's BT stake - The Times

The government is to use new powers to review the stake-building in BT by Altice, the telecoms group controlled by the billionaire Patrick Drahi.BT said that Kwasi Kwarteng, the business secretary, was exercising his “call-in power” under the National Securit…

The government is to use new powers to review the stake-building in BT by Altice, the telecoms group controlled by the billionaire Patrick Drahi, in an intervention shortly before takeover restrictio… [+567 chars]

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