Rupert Murdoch met Rishi Sunak five times in 12-month period

Media mogul met government representatives 12 times in 2022-23 when he was chair of News Corp

The media mogul Rupert Murdoch met Rishi Sunak five times over a 12-month period before he stepped down as the chair of News Corp in September last year, according to government records.

Official records of government meetings, analysed by the campaign group Hacked Off, show that the former head of News Corp - which owns the Times and the Sun newspapers in the UK - personally met government representatives 12 times between October 2022 and September 2023, including five meetings with the prime minister.