Leveson Inquiry: Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre hits out at 'risible' Rupert Murdoch He later accepted he was referring to an email which said the Mail's opposition to News Corp's bid to take over BSkyB was driven by commercial interests, rather than its editorial policy, but said he did not "see the difference" between the two. In response, Mr Dacre issued a statement saying: "In accusing me at the Leveson Inquiry of saying in a statement that the Mail's editorial policy is driven by commercial interests, I'm afraid Mr Murdoch is hopelessly muddled. In this conversation, I spoke of the serious threats to editorial plurality in Britain posed by the commercial monopoly that would be created by a successful BSkyB bid. In this I was conveying the view of an alliance of media companies - including: the BBC, the Guardian, the Telegraph, C4, BT, the Mirror and the Mail - who opposed the bid. To say that I believed that the Mail's editorial policy is driven by commercial interests - this from a man, who over the years has ruthlessly used his papers to promote Sky TV - is, frankly, risible.