The Sunday Telegraph London, July 16th, 2006
IN YET another sign that the tectonic plates are shifting, Gordon Brown is, for the first time, to accompany Tony Blair to a conference in California later this month being organised by Rupert Murdoch, the owner of The Sun and The Times.
"Tony was originally going on his own, but Gordon, sensing that the handover of power was near, asked Murdoch's people if he could also go,'' says my man in Number 11. "Gordon has some unlikely friends in the newspaper world, such as the veteran Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre, but he now recognises that he has to win over Murdoch's News International titles as ...
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