Just love this entry from Wikipedia - now Rupert Murdoch, I can understand how he had his hand up Blair’s arse pulling the strings (no-one gets elected these days with out his nod) but Richard “Dirty” Desmond? Owner of “Asian Babes”? In Downing Street? Seriously - was Blair a fan? Still - I can understand the requirement for some of Dirty Des’s reading material aimed at mother thumb and her four daughters given the unfortunate looking Mrs Bliar… gives a whole new meaning to dirty dossier.
“A Cabinet Office freedom of information response, released the day after Blair handed over power to Gordon Brown, documents Blair having various official phone calls and meetings with Rupert Murdoch of News Corporation and Richard Desmond of Northern and Shell Media.
The response includes contacts “clearly of an official nature” in the specified period, but excludeds contacts “not clearly of an official nature.” No details were given of what subjects discussed. In the period between September 2002 and April 2005, Blair and Murdoch are documented speaking 6 times; three times in the 9 days before the Iraq war, including the eve of the March 20 US and UK invasion, and on January 29, April 25 and October 3 2004. Between January 2003 and February 2004, Mr Blair had three meetings with Richard Desmond; on January 29 and September 3 2003 and February 23 2004.
The information was disclosed after a three and a half year battle by the Lib Dem Lord Avebury.Lord Avebury’s initial October 2003 information request was dismissed by then leader of the Lords, Baroness Amos. A following complaint was rejected, with Downing Street claiming the information compromised free and frank discussions, while Cabinet Office claimed releasing the timing of the PM’s contacts with individuals is undesirable, as it might lead to the content of the discussions being disclosed. While awaiting a following appeal from Lord Avebury, the cabinet office announced that it would release the information. Lord Avebury said: “The public can now scrutinise the timing of his (Murdoch’s) contacts with the former Prime Minister, to see whether they can be linked to events in the outside world.”"
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