News about Fraser Nelson

With an announcement set this month, Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has ordered Ofcom to investigate the Telegraph group's sale and possibly block it. Ever since RedBird IMI paid £1.2 billion for the company, fears have been raised. RedBird IMI is a joint venture owned by US-based RedBird Capital and IMI, a Gulf media firm owned by UAE deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

When Mr Johnson's new baby arrives in the coming weeks, there has been rumors about his fate after his explosive resignation, from his immediate return to the Commons through a by-election to trying to live as a stay-at-home, nappy-changing dad. Mr Johnson's resignation coincided with the launching of the 195-year-old magazine, prompting rumors that he may have been dramatically shot in to the editor's position, which he occupied between 1999 and 2005. Following the bankruptcy of B.UK Ltd, which is owned by the Barclay family, being put into receivership by Lloyds Banking Group as it attempts to recover a debt of over £1 billion, the Spectator is being sold along with The Daily and Sunday Telegraph newspapers. According to a Westminster source, There is talk of spinning off The Spectator and selling it separately, and Murdoch would be interested.' Boris' return to the country would be a coup.'

ANDREW PIERCE: Leading Tories Sir Keir Starmer retaliated in his defence of allegations that he was not capable of defining what a woman is by claiming that 99.9% of them do not have a penis. However, one Cabinet minister, Penny Mordaunt, preferred to remain anonymous, a surprise to some considering how vocal she has been in the past in favour of trans rights. Mordaunt's two Tory leadership campaigns were harmed by her past statement that "trans women are women," as well as her mention of 'pregnant people."

She accused a large number of actors of being in her way throughout her 49 days in office last year. The former president said that her party had not "step in a free market direction" in the last decade and that she needed to'start building more of a solid intellectual base.' She also slammed the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) over its economic forecasting, arguing it was less accurate than her accountant husband's, and screamed for "system resistance" from a Remainer-dominated Civil Service. After her mini-Budget, she also claimed that she was forced to fire Kwasi Kwarteng to prevent a "market meltdown" after his close friend's death, which fatally undermined her position.

ICHARD LITTLEJOHN: I've heard 'get round the table' before for the past two weeks, I've heard it a thousand times. Mick Lynch, the railway worker's boss, remarked on the situation yesterday. The Government has to be able to get round the table. Aslef, aka Asleep, was also adamant in his protest against the train drivers' union. All his members want ministers to be around the table. The getting round the table has now become the accepted wisdom, the universal cure for all industrial strife known to man.

The Spectator's latest front page - which depicts the US President mistakenly holding up five fingers in the belief he is holding up six - would need to be specifically licensed in order to display on the magazine, according to Fraser Nelson, as satirical front pages about Donald Trump and Boris Johnson were waved at. Pictured: Fraser Nelson, the editor of The Spectator