Former British prime minister John Major informed members of the Leveson inquiry that Rupert Murdoch attempted to persuade him to change Britain’s European policy in return for favorable coverage in Murdoch’s newspapers. Major said that during a dinner in 1997, Murdoch, founder of News Corporation, informed the then-prime minister that the nation’s European policy were not in line with his own views.
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