Under questioning from
Robert Jay QC at the
Leveson Inquiry : famed Australian/American media mogul
Rupert Murdoch who promised editorial independence to
Margaret Thatcher's government during his 1981 successful bid to takeover the
Times Newspapers and thus avoided the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, responds to Jay's inference that he may influence politicians:
“If any politician wanted to know what I think, they only had to read
the editorials”