During the general election campaign, David Cameron’s close relationship with Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks was regularly used as a whacking stick against him by his opponents. However, with a Tory majority now won, the Prime Minister appears to have few qualms about socialising with the media mogul once again.
On Monday night the Prime Minister attended an intimate Christmas drinks bash at his old pal Murdoch’s St James’s flat. With the phone hacking scandal — and consequent Leveson inquiry — now far behind Murdoch, Cameron joined other Cabinet Ministers including John Whittingdale and George Osborne to raise a toast.
At the event, the Guardian reports that Cameron was also joined by his old friend Rebekah Brooks. The reunion comes after the pair’s friendship went through a testing time during the phone hacking scandal — and Brooks’s subsequent trial — when it was revealed that the Prime Minister had sent her texts signed off with ‘LOL’ for ‘lots of love’.
While a No.10 spokesman declines to comment on the soirée, Mr S is not all that surprised to see the pair reuniting. After all Cameron and Brooks are used to seeing each other over Christmas. Back in 2010 — pre-Leveson — Cameron attended a dinner with Brooks on the night before Christmas Eve, as well as a party at Brooks’s sister-in-law’s on Boxing Day.
Well they do say Christmas is the time for goodwill toward all men!
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