Gove admits to being Rupert Murdoch’s mystery diner

 
4 February 2013

So now we know. Education Secretary Michael Gove confirms to me that he was indeed the other Cabinet minister who dined with Rupert Murdoch at his Green Park flat, as I suggested last week. The first one to confess was William Hague, the Foreign Secretary. George Osborne, Boris Johnson and Damian Lewis were all at another separate Murdoch dinner.

All five men have been recipients of a Murdoch shilling or two, so this is not surprising, although Gove and his wife, Sarah Vine, a Times columnist, have distanced themselves publicly from their old friend Rebekah Brooks.

Boris has also dined recently with George Osborne and David Cameron in Davos, of course, and forgot to pay his share of the bill. Boris also had dinner with the head of another very powerful media organisation under police scrutiny. Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger was there, breaking bread with acting BBC director-general Tim Davie. Just shows you can’t be too careful about whom you dine with these days.

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