The Fox-Sky row isn’t going away, no matter how much ministers ignore it

The merger has been greeted with silence by ministers who usually welcome foreign investment. That’s because Murdoch is as controversial as everHas anyone in Downing Street actually realised that Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox has lodged a bid for Sky? If you trawl through newspapers and the internet looking for comments from the government about the proposed £11.7bn deal, you will not find much.Matt Hancock, the junior culture minister, appeared in the Commons to answer an