Karen Egan explains the timing of this probe..."That was December, and we're now almost in June, so it's no surprise we're seeing this now,". She said that the government was attempting to "get ahead of the situation" and send a message to Mr Drahi "not to assume" that a bid would be allowed.
"The new bill is designed to protect assets exactly like BT," she said. "The government is quite sensitive over this, primarily on security grounds. It's very unlikely that they'd be happy with Mr Drahi taking over BT."