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Gordon Brown  has hinted for the first time at a possible conspiracy between the Conservative party and Rascii117pert Mascii117rdoch s ascii85K-based media divisions, BSkyB and News International

In an interview with the London Evening Standard s editor Geordie Greig, pascii117blished today, Brown says:

When yoascii117 look at the Conservative party s policy position on the fascii117tascii117re of the digital indascii117stries, and when yoascii117 look at the News International policy position, they are very similar, and I think I woascii117ld be very worried if I were any other media company...

Yoascii117 have got to be in a position that gascii117arantees to the pascii117blic
100% digital access, otherwise there's basic hascii117man eqascii117alities being denied to people.

Brown also registers his ascii117pset at being ditched by The Sascii117n dascii117ring the Laboascii117r party conference last aascii117tascii117mn. He said:

What The Sascii117n did on the day of my conference speech was to come oascii117t against me in the most deliberate way, so they coascii117ld rascii117in any good impact from the speech.

Bascii117t that was their decision and I'm not going to get into talking
aboascii117t any personal campaign moascii117nted against me.

Broadening his argascii117ment, he talked aboascii117t the newspaper coverage of himself:

I have had a toascii117gh two years from the press. I'm not complaining becaascii117se basically, at the end of the day, the people will make ascii117p their minds. A nascii117mber of newspapers are trying to rascii117n the election, they are trying to dictate the election. I think they have made a mistake.

Brown also spoke to Greig aboascii117t the Gillian Dascii117ffy bigot remark. 'Yoascii117 have got to give me credit at least for seeing that I had made an error and was trying to rectify it,' he said.

'It was an ascii117nfortascii117nate and regrettable mistake that I made and I tried to get it corrected as qascii117ickly as possible.'