Blair godfather for Murdochs

FORMER Prime Minister Tony Blair is godfather to one of Rupert Murdoch’s young children, sources said yesterday, raising fresh questions about British political links to the media mogul’s empire.

The revelation emerged in a Vogue magazine interview with Murdoch’s wife Wendi Deng, which also contains claims that Blair was present when Murdoch and Deng’s two daughters were baptised beside the River Jordan in March last year.

A spokesman for Blair’s London office and a spokeswoman for Murdoch’s US-based News Corporation both refused to comment on the story in Vogue’s October British edition, which is out on Thursday.