New chair of parliamentary committee overseeing UK press in the pay of Rupert Murdoch?

‘The new chair of the parliamentary Culture, Media and Sport Committee is Conservative MP for Folkestone and Hythe Damian Collins.
Damian’s job will be to make sure the committee continues its crucial work of calling to account and overseeing the UK press and media in a rigorous and completely unbiased way.
I’m sure Damian will be completely unhindered in this task by the fact his publisher is Harper Collins – and this year he has received thousands of pounds in advance fees from the publisher for a new book.
That would be the Harper Collins owned by Rupert Murdoch.
So no conflict of interest there then …’
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