http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18144135
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Lord Mandelson has denied there was a "Faustian pact" between Labour and Rupert Murdoch's News International before the 1997 general election.
He told the Leveson Inquiry that Tony Blair sought to "reassure" the Sun over issues such as Europe.
But he insisted there was no deal involving commercial concessions in return for support from the newspapers.
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An admission
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But he went on: "It is also arguably the case, however, that personal relationships between Mr Blair, Mr Brown and Rupert Murdoch became closer than was wise in view of the adverse inference drawn from the number of meetings and contacts they had.
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and the sting in the tail
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The same, I am sure, can be said for Mr Cameron and, no doubt, his predecessors."
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Tom Watson,the MP who has pursued the phone hacking scandals for some time and kept it in the public arena is a witness tomorrow.