Rupert Murdoch takes the field to further complicate the already complex English electoral landscape. In fact, elections will be held in Great Britain on 7 May for the formation of a new government after the end of David Cameron's first term. Murdoch, the global giant of information, owner of numerous newspapers and television channels, has decided to exercise all his media weight against the Labor Party. According to the Independent, a competitor newspaper, Murdoch asked his newspapers, Times, Sun and Sunday Times, to raise the bar against Ed Miliband's party.
The intervention of the Jaws, as Murdoch is often referred to, comes in the midst of the most unpredictable British election campaign ever. Among the pollsters, no one dares to predict, but they all agree in predicting that a compact government majority will not emerge from the polls on 7 May. In the most uncertain elections in English history, neither Labor nor Conservatives will probably be able to obtain the 324 seats necessary for the formation of an autonomous government. Not only could the May 7 elections reflect the status of a divided country, they could also put an end to Britain's traditional bipartisanship. According to forecasts, Labor and Conservatives will stage a real battle to the last vote, even if in recent weeks it seems that Miliband's party is gaining a slight advantage over Cameron.
It is probably for this reason that Murdoch has decided to take the field. After the end of the partnership with Tony Blair, the Australian billionaire has never hidden his hostility to Labour. All the more reason now that Miliband's party seems to be influenced by the Scottish populist sirens and threatens, if it wins the elections, to endanger the media empire News Corp which controls as many as three newspapers in the United Kingdom. According to rumors, Murdoch recently visited the editorial staff of the Sun and an anonymous source reported that "Rupert was very clear, he said that the future of the group is at stake and that we must all act together".
