Publisher weighs up bid for UK's struggling Telegraph newspapers

One of Britain's most politically significant stable of national newspapers could soon have a new owner after veteran editor and publisher David Montgomery reportedly expressed an interest in buying The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.

Since 2004, the Telegraph titles have been owned by twins David and Frederick Barclay, whose business portfolio also includes The Ritz Hotel, and influential right-wing magazine The Spectator.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is a former editor of The Spectator, as well as being a longtime columnist for the Telegraph group, and the papers have been very public in their high-profile backing of him and his approach to Brexit, with one Telegraph writer earlier this month comparing Johnson to the country's World War II leader Winston Churchill.