Murray is known for his association with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. "The Guardian" has described Murray as Orbán's favorite author and in March 2018, Orbán posted a photo on his official Facebook account of himself reading the Hungarian-language edition of "The Strange Death of Europe". Murray has disputed the claim that Hungary is experiencing significant democratic backsliding under Orbán, and has called Freedom House's comparisons of Orbán's government to a dictatorship as "increasingly off-kilter". In May 2018, Murray was personally received by Orbán in Budapest as part of the "Future of Europe" conference along with other conservative figures like Steve Bannon, and according to Hungarian state media had an individual discussion and photograph with Orbán.