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According to the Daily Telegraph, the Ukipleader met the News International chairman for a “secret” meal on Tuesday, the pair’s first meeting, in the wake of the Eastleigh by-election which saw Farage’s eurosceptic party push the Tories into third place.
The newspaper reports that Farage told Murdoch he would work with the Tories to defeat Labour in 2015, as long as the prime minister was no longer the party’s leader.
Mr Farage also has the support of the influential hedge fund manager Crispin Odey, whose former father-in-law is News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch.