This was when he wrote about News International’s industrial dispute with the print unions, caused by the decision to move its papers from Freet Stree to Wapping. Neil claims the only change made was for “legal reason”. He say that “he never barked orders to change what I was planning for the front page and though Murdoch tried to get the new paper to back Margaret Thatcher in the struggle for the Conservative Party leadership he did not complain when the Sunday Times supported Michael Heseltine.