Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been accused of leaking private text messages between himself and French President Emmanuel Macron, who has accused the PM of lying to him.
The French president said, “I don’t think, I know,” on Monday when quizzed by journalists if he thought the Prime Minister had lied to him about the cancellation of the $90bn submarine contract with Australia.
Any decision by the Prime Minister’s office to leak private correspondence between Scott Morrison and the French President for domestic consumption would be an extraordinary diplomatic move. “What I will simply say is this. We were contacted when we were trying to set up the call. made it pretty clear he was concerned that this would be a phone call that could result in a decision by Australia not to proceed.”He was also asked in the press conference whether he replied to the reported text message from Mr Macron, effectively confirming the text messages as reported were accurate by saying that he had.
Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison, German chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, French president Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visit the Trevi fountain. “I have no interest in personalising these matters. But I thought it would be good to give some of the background,’’ he said.
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