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19 February 2010

Editor Rod Liddle? Not any more

Lebedev bows to the inevitable.

By George Eaton

Well, that’s a relief. Rod Liddle is out of the running to be editor of the Independent, according to the Guardian. A source told the paper that the “liberal howl-around” was so intense that Alexander Lebedev (who has yet to buy the Indy after all) has been forced to reconsider.

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