Key document was a ‘Dear John’ letter chairman Michael Bishop drafted to prime minister John Major on a transatlantic flightThe government’s sizing up of Channel 4 for privatisation,revealed last month, comes nearly 20 years after the broadcaster’s public ownership was last up for serious debate.
But in 1996, or when John Major’s government was tempted to sell what seemed to be one of the few ripe plums left after the Thatcher years,he met with stern opposition from an ally.
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Source: theguardian.com