Former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie has played down the political influence of the paper under his editorship - including its infamous splash on the eve of the 1992 General Election: "If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights".

MacKenzie described the headline as a "gag" and a "bit of bloody fun" when asked about the paper's political influence at a Leveson Inquiry seminar yesterday, arguing that it was Kinnock who had given the paper the credit for undermining his 1992 election campaign.

"I got bugger all out of that," said MacKenzie. "I'm not Lord anything, am I?"

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