Mr. Blair admitted to mounting a charm offensive to win over News Corp. when he attended a 1995 company conference on HaymanIsland, Australia, two years before his election.
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He briefly addressed his trip to meet Murdoch on HaymanIsland in 1995, while he was campaigning to become prime minister, and agreed with his former aide Alastair Campbell that he was "angered" to have to do it.