Despite Bill Gates being knighted by the Queen in 2005 (pictured),
Steve Jobs was reportedly cockblocked in 2009—and all because he refused to speak at a political conference. The news has only just come out today, after a former Labour Party politician spilled the beans, saying they tried to recruit him to speak at the party's annual conference, but Jobs either wasn't keen to align himself with a political party—a UK one at that—or just didn't have the time to brown-nose with then-Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.
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