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Tuesday September 29, 2009 at the Labour Party conference - was this the day the wheels came off the News Corporation chariot?

Tuesday September 29, 2009 at the Labour Party conference – was this the day the wheels came off the News Corporation chariot?

By Stephen Foster on October 19, 2011

The scene was Brighton, England and embattled UK prime minister Gordon Brown had just tried (and mostly failed) to rally his battered troops. Leading Labour politicos at the party conference were no doubt looking forward to a few sustaining snifters at the News International party, News International being the News Corporation-owned company that published the [...]

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