The former prime minister said the News Corporation chief executive made it clear at a dinner in February 1997 that his newspapers would not come out for him at the forthcoming general election without this change.
Sir John said he was advised before the election that he “ought to try to make some effort to get closer to the Murdoch press and I agreed that I would write Mr Murdoch to dinner”.
He added: “In the dinner it became apparent in discussion that Mr Murdoch said that he really didn’t like our European policies… and he wished me to change our European policies".
“If we couldn’t change our European policies, his papers could not and would not support the Conservative government. There was no question of me changing our policies.”
He said: “My feeling was that what he was edging towards was a referendum on leaving the European Union. I made it pretty clear we were not going to change our European policies.
“It is not very often someone sits in front of a prime minister and says, ‘I would like you to change your policy and if you do not change your policy our organisation cannot support you’.”
https://www.channel4.com/news/major-denies-sun-editor-abused-him-after-black-wednesday
Why isn’t this a text post? What’s with the link and the title?
Does your client not allow you to make a text-only post without the keyboard-mashing URL?
But that domain’s apparently for sale for a cool $10,000 USD. What a bargain.
