Cabinet minister denies secret meeting after revelation that she held talks with the media tycoon in September last year
Kemi Badenoch at the Tory conference. Sources said the meeting with Mr Murdoch was not recorded due to an administrative error Ms Badenoch met Mr Murdoch in September last year during a trip to the US taken shortly after she was named trade secretary in Liz Truss’s Cabinet.
She blamed the lack of a formal record on an oversight made by government officials who had been present at the event. Sources close to Ms Badenoch said civil servants were in the room for the conversation between the two and the failure to log it was an an administrative error.first reported that Ms Badenoch met Mr Murdoch – the hugely powerful former head of Fox and News Corp – for around 20 minutes in New York.
In a recent poll of Tory members, carried out by Conservative Home, she was the most popular choice to succeed Rishi Sunak as the next party leader.
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