Peter Dutton has refused to call for Scott Morrison to resign from Parliament as the Coalition splits over the former prime minister’s secret Cabinet appointments.
Mr Dutton remained tight-lipped on the revelations the former PM had secretly sworn himself into five separate portfolios between March 2020 and May 2021 during a press conference in Tasmania on Tuesday afternoon.
Mr Morrison reportedly installed himself as health and finance minister in the early stages of the pandemic as a precaution in the context of the emerging pandemic. “The Prime Minister’s come out of the holiday swinging and obviously this is an issue that he’ll get his teeth into,” Mr Dutton said earlier.
But the shadow home affairs minister and one of the former government’s most senior frontbenchers, Karen Andrews, has taken the extraordinary step to call for Mr Morrison’s resignation.
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