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UK PM Theresa May met ‘kingmaker’ Rupert Murdoch on UN visit
May squeezed in the meeting during her one-night trip to the United Nations General Assembly, where she made her first UN speech since becoming PM.
Downing Street confirmed a “brief meeting” had taken place when she met with staff from Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal newspaper.
The meeting with Murdoch, who owns The Times and Sun newspapers and Sky television in the UK, comes just three months after former PM David Cameron’s resignation.
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RT UK News of Murdoch’s meeting with May comes as the PM is under fire in the UK for her ambiguous stance on Brexit, with some party heavyweights accusing her of having no plan for leaving the EU.
The media mogul is outspoken in his criticism of the EU, and reportedly told journalist Anthony Hilton he disliked the union because: “When I go into Downing Street, they do what I say; when I go to Brussels, they take no notice.”
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British prime ministers have traditionally relied on support from Murdoch’s media empire in order to win elections, so much so that the press baron is commonly referred to as the UK’s ‘kingmaker.’
His friendship with former Prime Minister Tony Blair was seen to have had a very real impact on the political process in the UK, with the Sun backing Labour in every election Blair took part in.
Murdoch is also said to have pushed Blair hard to back former US President George W. Bush in invading Iraq.
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May also met with executives from some of corporate America’s biggest firms at the British Consul General’s Residence while in New York.
Bankers from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and BlackRock mingled with the PM alongside bosses from Amazon and IBM.