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Joyce responds to question of whether Morrison should resign over robodebt
Seven’s Sunrise host Natalie Barr pressed Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce over whether former prime minister Scott Morrison should leave politics after the robodebt royal commission.
We are hearing this morning that Liberal MPs want Scott Morrison out over his role in [robodebt]. Do you?
I’m not here to speak for Scott Morrison, but absolutely there are people who died. They committed suicide affected by this, absolutely I apologise to them. Absolutely we must make sure we do the right thing.
You don’t have to ask me for contrition, I’ve been offering it in every interview this far.
Look, I don’t like telling other politicians to leave politics, right. That’s their decision.
I just think, first of all, it has a whiff of not being earnest about it. It’s a decision best made by the person themselves, as to what they want to do with their career, not for other people. Otherwise you always get the inevitable. We tell all Labor party members they should leave politics, they tell us we should leave politics. There will be no one left in the place.
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