UK Government confirms Fox can bid for Sky as long as it flogs Sky News

A protracted assessment of Twenty-First Century Fox’s desire to acquire the 60% of Sky it doesn’t already own has concluded something needs to be done about Sky News.
The concern is that giving Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox control of Sky would negatively affect media plurality in the UK because he already owns a bunch of newspapers. So the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Matt Hancock, has concluded the acquisition process can only proceed if Fox finds an alterna