‘I have never asked for anything from any prime minister’ - Rupert Murdoch letter

Rupert Murdoch, who says he has never uttered the words ‘When I go into Downing Street, they do what I say; when I go to Brussels, they take no notice’ Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters

On a number of occasions now your paper has quoted me as saying: “When I go into Downing Street, they do what I say; when I go to Brussels, they take no notice.”

There is much fake news published about me, but let me make clear that I have never uttered those words. I have made it a principle all my life never to ask for anything from any prime minister.
Rupert Murdoch
New York, USA