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Murdoch's relationship with politicians also came under scrutiny Tuesday. The American-born News Corp. executive revealed that he'd told Conservative leader David Cameron that The Sun newspaper would endorse the Tories' election bid at a meeting at the George club in London on Sept. 10, 2009. The top-selling paper's endorsement of Cameron's Conservatives was a blow to Britain's Labour Party
-- and critics claim that it helped secure Tory approval for the potentially lucrative BSkyB bid after they won the election in 2010. Murdoch denied the charge Tuesday. "I would never have made that kind of a crass calculation," Murdoch said. "It just wouldn't occur to me." Murdoch acknowledged talking to Cameron about it at a Christmas dinner in 2010
-- after the Tory leader had been elected prime minister -- but said it was "a tiny side conversation ahead of a dinner." "It wasn't really a discussion, if you will," Murdoch said. Rupert Murdoch, who is still chairman and chief executive of News International's parent company News Corp., is scheduled to appear before the inquiry on Wednesday.
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