Tuesday, 26 November 2019

Turnbull says Morrison should not have called NSW police chief over doctored document

‘It is a call I would not have made,’ Malcom Turnbull says as pressure builds on Angus Taylor

Malcolm Turnbull has ratcheted up political pressure on Scott Morrison over the Angus Taylor controversy, declaring he would not have phoned the New South Wales police commissioner to check the status of an investigation into the origins of an altered document.

The former prime minister told Sky News on Wednesday he was certain the conversation his successor had with Mick Fuller was “innocuous, but it would have been much better if it had not been made, because it is really, it is vitally important that that inquiry that is being conducted by the NSW police – like every inquiry they undertake – is seen to be conducted entirely free of political influence. Being blunt about it – it is a call I would not have made.”

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