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Clegg: Tories bowed to Murdoch
Britain’s political class competed to “bow and scrape” before media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will say today, in comments aimed at setting his Liberal Democrats apart from the country’s two other main parties. The Lib Dems have had relatively few dealings with Murdoch and his News Corp media empire, which paid them little attention until they came to power in 2010 as part of a coalition government. In a speech he is expected to make later today at the opening of a summit tackling “Britain’s broken establishment”, Clegg will say: “Almost the entire political class competed to bow and scrape in front of Rupert Murdoch. The whole thing was rotten, and it inevitably came crashing down.”