a certain Rupert Murdoch visited Chequers on the very weekend the PM took his decision. All of which raises the question: were Murdoch's upscale mini-break and Brown's apparently catastrophic loss of nerve linked?
James Silver couldn't get Mr Murdoch to comment but went for thr next best thing which is a certain Irwin M. Stelzer,consultant to News International.
According to Stelzer
"The Sun's campaign [for a referendum], which I think is fun and ingenious, is no secret, nor are [Sun associate editor] Trevor Kavanagh's heartfelt feelings about surrendering more sovereignty. So Brown has to know that one of the factors, maybe the factor, that the Sun will consider [when it comes to an endorsement] is his position on the referendum..
Interestingly he was not happy about the election strategy
"It was an appalling blunder,followed by a disingenuous disavowal which only made it worse.There's no doubt [Brown] would have gone to the country if the polls were going his way. His guys were running around the conference - I was there - talking about how they were going to put the final nail in the Tories' coffin. There was no indication that there was any feeling that the national interest was playing into this decision
So the most important media player is wavering in its support for Gordon Brown,that is of course if you believe he has the ear of the master
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