Rupert Murdoch has worked since at least 1979 and has been criticized.
 Although contact between the two before this point had been explicitly denied in an official history of The Times, documents found in Thatcher's archives in 2012 revealed a secret meeting had taken place a month before in which Murdoch briefed Thatcher on his plans for the paper, such as taking on trade unions
=== Political activities in United Kingdom ===In Britain, in the 1980s, Murdoch formed a close alliance with Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher

