British Prime Minister David Cameron insisted Sunday he had struck no secret deals with media baron Rupert Murdoch whereby policy was traded for his newspapers’ political support. The government has been under pressure over its closeness to Murdoch’s News Corporation after Murdoch and his son James gave evidence under oath at the British inquiry into press ethics. Cameron openly admitted courting newspaper proprietors to get his point of view across and that the relationship between politicians and the press had become too close. But he maintained there was no agreement that in return for the support of his newspapers, among them The Sun and The Times, he would help Murdoch’s business interests, including his bid for full control of pay-television giant BSkyB.
