UK leaders under Murdoch yoke

“[UK Labor leader] Ed Miliband has been desperate to put a line underneath this, but there were extremely close contacts, even more close contacts actually, between former Prime Minister Tony Blair [and the Murdoch empire] than David Cameron,” Chris Bambery said in an exclusive interview with Press TV.

“Murdoch describes Tony Blair as a friend and they socialize, holiday together and there are extremely close connections between the two,” he added.

Bambery said the trend continued with Blair’s successor Gordon Brown, but “subsequently they fell out when News International’s media, The Sun, refused to back him (Brown) in the last general election.”

“They [UK officials] really believed that these people were decisive in swinging public opinion and therefore would do almost anything to curry favor with the Murdoch and News International,” he added.

Bambery noted that the whole scandal is very revealing about the current state of democracy in Britain.

“We as ordinary people don’t have access to David Cameron or to previous prime ministers, but Rupert Murdoch can host a pajama party; Rupert Murdoch can snap his fingers and they’ll come running to have cocktails and whatever with him,” he concluded.

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