Salmond denies being an ‘undercover lobbyist’ for Murdoch

Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Scotland's First Minister, Alex SalmondThe SNP leader and Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond, has spoken in the defense of his meetings with Rupert Murdoch and said that they were aiming to secure jobs and investment for Scotland.

Mr. Salmond has stated that BSkyB at least employs 6200 in Scotland and he had meetings just to maintain a “good professional relationship” with Mr. Murdoch. He has additionally told that he had met the News Corporation chief only five times in the past five years, while 18 such meetings had been held between Mr. Murdoch and David Cameron and 19 with various leaders of the Labour Party.

Labour leader, Ed Miliband has claimed Mr. Salmond to be an “undercover lobbyist” for Mr. Murdoch after it has been known to the Leveson Inquiry that News Corporation thought the SNP leader would intervene on behalf of the company’s BSkyB takeover bid. News Corporation’s director of public affairs, Frederic Michel as emailed James Murdoch suggesting Mr. Salmond was prepared to lobby Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt on the issue, something which Mr. Salmond has refused at the end.

Speaking about Mr. Miliband, Mr. Salmond has said: “This is a guy who last July was having champagne and canapes at a News International reception but now thinks people will forget all of Labour’s previous associations.”

Mr. Miliband, while campaigning with his party in Glasgow on Friday, has said: “If he had nothing to hide, why did he hide it? What he actually did was, acted as an undercover lobbyist for Rupert Murdoch. I don’t think that’s what people expect of the First Minister of Scotland.”

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