John Kampfner, the New Statesman editor who left the title abruptly this week, had considered a management buy-out of the title, according to the Independent on Sunday.
The paper claims Kampfner looked into an MBO last summer “when it became clear that [Geoffrey] Robinson was curtailing spending on the magazine”.
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