Blair at Leveson today...

May 28, 2012 at 7:47 am (apologists and collaborators, grovelling, Jim D, labour party, media, Murdoch, Tony Blair)

Lest we forget:

Tony Blair is godfather to Rupert Murdoch’s daughter

Tony Blair is godfather to one of Rupert Murdoch’s young children, it has emerged in an interview with the media tycoon’s wife Wendi.

Tony Blair and Rupert Murdoch together Photo: EPA

(From the Telegraph, 4th September 2011)

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Lance Price (former No 10 media advisor under Tony Blair):

Blair and [Alastair] Campbell took to heart the advice of the Australian prime minister, Paul Keating, on how to deal with Murdoch: “He’s a big bad bastard, and the only way you can deal with him is to make sure he thinks you can be a big bad bastard too. You can do deals with him, without ever saying a deal is done. But the only thing he cares about is his business and the only language he respects is strength.”

Blair and his team believed they had achieved exactly that. A deal had been done, although with nothing in writing. If Murdoch were left to pursue his business interests in peace he would give Labour a fair wind.

In the footnotes  to his book, Price, who worked at No 10 as Campbell’s deputy, attributes that final sentence to “private information”.

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Of course, Blair and his followers have also sold their services to forces even nastier than Murdoch, reports Nick Cohen, a one-time (critical) admirer.