From The Guardian:
The Cabinet Office has released information casting doubt on Rupert Murdoch's claim that Gordon Brown used a call in the autumn of 2009 to pledge his intention to declare "war" on News Corporation.
It said there was only one record of a call between Brown and Murdoch in the year up to March 2010 and that the conversation took place on 10 November 2009, when the two men discussed Afghanistan.
This supports the statement made by Brown at the Leveson inquiry on Monday, when he said that the conversation described by Murdoch in his own evidence to the inquiry "never took place".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
Both P.M. Gordon Brown and Rupert Murdoch were under oath when they gave their testimony.
Rupert responded with a sad typo-laden tweet today:
I stand by every word is aid at Leveson.
A little info on what the Cabinet Office is from Wikipedia:
The Cabinet Office is a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for supporting the Prime Minister and Cabinet of the United Kingdom.[3] It is composed of various units that support Cabinet committees and which co-ordinate the delivery of government objectives via other departments. It currently has just over 2,000 staff, most of whom work in Whitehall. Staff working in the Prime Minister's Office are part of the Cabinet Office.
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
Update 1:
AnnetteK has found a breaking Guardian article which suggests yet another example of possible perjury by Rupert Murdoch:
Rupert Murdoch joined in an "over-crude" attempt by US Republicans to force Tony Blair to accelerate British involvement in the Iraq war a week before a crucial House of Commons vote in 2003, according to the final volumes of Alastair Campbell's government diaries.
In another blow to the media mogul, who told the Leveson inquiry that he had never tried to influence any prime minister, Campbell's diary says Murdoch warned Blair in a phone call of the dangers of a delay in Iraq. The disclosure by Campbell, whose diaries are serialised in the Guardian, will pile the pressure on Murdoch in light of his evidence to the Leveson inquiry.
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Campbell's disclosure of Murdoch's intervention on the eve of the Iraq war is the second substantive example to raise questions over the News Corp chairman's claim that he never tried to influence any prime minister. John Major told Leveson on Tuesday that Murdoch told him in February 1997, three months before the general election, that he would withdraw support for the Tories unless the then prime minister changed his policies on Europe.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
Alastair Campbell was Tony Blair's Director of Communications and strategist for P.M. Tony Blair from 1997 to 2003 (Wikipedia).
Big h/t to Lib Dem FoP for reminding us there's still time to get a free digital copy of the book by Peter Jukes (a.k.a. Brit), THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF MURDOCH. Here's a link to Lib Dem FoP's diary, which explains how to do it:
http://www.dailykos.com/...