Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is set towards lending his support — and the support of the multiple newspapers and UK television channels under his family’s control — to the Labour Party at this year’s general election, the i has reported. The Times and the Sun have endorsed the Conservatives at every general election since 2010, following a period in which both got behind New Labour under Tony Blair’s leadership.
The Australian proprietor stepped down as head of News Corporation and Fox last year after 70 years in the business yet maintains influence at the companies, where he is now chairman emeritus while his son Lachlan oversees operations. Murdoch certainly knows how to back a winner: in the last two decades the Times has supported the party which ended up with the most seats in each general election. Might this Leftward drift extend stateside, where Fox News employees and executives have become increasingly critical of Donald Trump?
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