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Article: 'New Statesman' charter torn up
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 5, 1995
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CHRIS BLACKHURST
Westminster Correspondent
The crisis at New Statesman & Society will take another twist
today when Philip Jeffrey, its socialist millionaire major
shareholder, returns to take day-to-day control.
Speaking to the Independent from Cyprus, where he has been on
holiday, before flying back to Britain, Mr Jeffrey offered no
guarantees as to the future of the troubled magazine's staff and
said he was tearing up its old hallowed constitution.
This followed last week's dramatic intervention by Mr Jeffrey,
who for the past two years has acted like an absentee landlord,
when he forced the resignation of its entire board. He took that
decision after becoming fed up with newspaper ...