Boris Johnson hasn’t always enjoyed the best relationship with Rupert Murdoch’s titles, having once been sacked as a Times trainee for fabricating quotes. But relations between the former Tory leader and the Sun king himself have been cordial for much of the past decade. And evidence for that is found in the newly updated register of MPs’ interests.
Johnson’s latest entry in the list shows that he flew out for a business meeting in Montana between 11-12 October last month – just over a week before Liz Truss’s resignation prompted Johnson to mount an abortive comeback effort to succeed her. Murdoch last year purchased the 340,000-acre Beaverhead Ranch in the western American state in what was the biggest ranch sale in Montana’s history.
According to Commons’ records, Murdoch paid £11,559 for ‘internal US air travel, accommodation and hospitality’ for Johnson and two members of his staff.
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