Sky/Fox Update Debate
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Ruth Cadbury
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(6 years, 3 months ago)
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Ruth Cadbury (Brentford and Isleworth) (Lab)
I am honoured to have Sky and Sky News based in my constituency. Despite very serious instances of sexual and racial harassment at Fox News, the CMA has concluded that none of that, and none of the industrial-scale phone hacking at Murdoch’s UK papers, is relevant to broadcast standards. Does the Secretary of State really agree with the CMA and think that none of that is relevant to how companies that are completely controlled by the Murdochs behave?
Matt Hancock
My position is not to agree or to disagree with the CMA; it is to consider the final report that the CMA produces in a couple of months’ time.