So, in view of Mr Hunt's publicly stated admiration for NewsCorp and Rupert Murdoch, he probably now needs to demonstrate that he was not doing a favour to NewsCorp by permitting the negotiation of these remedies - which ultimately involved NewsCorp promising to spin-off 61% of Sky News.
Also on Monday, ratings agency Fitch said it would view a regulatory block of the attempted acquisition of BSkyB as "negative" for NewsCorp and Macquarie downgraded NewsCorp. to "underperform" due to the regulatory uncertainty.