Did Rupert Murdoch demand Michael Gove’s return to cabinet? Tories don’t deny it

‘The Tories are refusing to deny whether media mogul Rupert Murdoch asked Prime Minister Theresa May to reappoint Michael Gove to the cabinet or face bad press in his newspaper titles.
In the days following June’s general election, Labour deputy leader Tom Watson wrote to May to ask whether she had reappointed Gove following pressure from Murdoch.
In the email, Watson said it had been “suggested” to him that May could have made the appointment to curry favor with the Murdoch press.
The government has now responded to Watson’s message, but has not denied Murdoch’s involvement outright. Damian Green, the first secretary of state, said decisions over appointments to the cabinet are taken by the prime minister alone.’
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