Maybe Blair’s right to keep Murdoch’s newspapers on his side

THE latest insight into the workings of 10 Downing Street during Tony Blair’s reign come from assistant spin doctor, Lance Price, who has one particularly chilling claim.

It claims that certainly during his first term Mr Blair promised to make no changes to their EU policy without consulting Rupert Murdoch, who owns the Times and the Sun.

Mr Murdoch's antipathy to the EU is at least partly responsible for the British people's eurosceptic stance, fed as it is on a regular diet of anti-EU fare.