Exclusive: Axel Springer’s Döpfner courts UK conservative elites

Exclusive: Axel Springer’s Döpfner courts UK conservative elites

The ScoopA successful media pressure campaign from the right torpedoed Jeff Zucker’s attempt to buy the Telegraph. Axel Springer’s Mathias Döpfner is making sure that doesn’t happen again by personally courting regulators and the country’s influential conservative political figures as he attempts to get his bid to buy the paper approved.During a swing through London earlier this month, he embarked on a get-to-know-you tour with the British polit…