Christopher Pyne's new memoir looks back at a tumultuous 26-years in Australian politics скачать в хорошем качестве

Christopher Pyne's new memoir looks back at a tumultuous 26-years in Australian politics

Peter Dutton doesn’t have a wide enough appeal within the electorate to become prime minister, Scott Morrison was not part of a Machiavellian plot to overthrow Malcolm Turnbull and politicians need to stop listening to journalists and focus on “Bob and Nancy.” That is according to former senior Coalition minister Christopher Pyne, who has released a new memoir, The Insider: The scoops, the scandals and the serious business within the Canberra bubble, which looks back at his 26 years in politics His tenure included two leadership spills while the Coalition was in office, serving under three prime ministers in the space of just over three years. The former Leader of the House said he was not involved in the ousting of Tony Abbott as prime minister in 2015, but did his best to stop Malcolm Turnbull suffering the same fate in 2018. He said once he realized Mr Turnbull was unlikely to hold onto the top job, he did what he could to stave off Peter Dutton’s push to become prime minister. “I think Peter is a fantastic cabinet minister, he is a tremendous person and a man of great integrity and I like him very much but that doesn’t mean he is going to be the prime minister,” he said. "I didn’t support him in that ballot in 2018, which is obvious, because I didn't think he had the wide electorate appeal necessary to be the leader. At that time, I thought if we elect Peter Dutton as leader, he will do well in Queensland, but I couldn’t see where he would do well outside of Queensland, he certainly would not have done well in Adelaide.” Mr Pyne also disputed claims Scott Morrison was involved in a months-long conspiracy to undermine Mr Turnbull’s leadership in order to take the reins for himself. "The idea that he was involved in some House of Cards-like conspiracy that lasted for months with a coterie of people bringing down the Turnbull prime ministership in order to reach for the prize that week, is not borne out by someone who saying on the Thursday afternoon, when he is moments away from being prime minister, 'why don't we send everyone home for two weeks.'" Mr Pyne said he would urge politicians to avoid spending all their times with journalists, who are the "ultimate insiders" and instead speak to every day people, who he dubs “Bob and Nancy.” "Here in parliament house we do start to think this is the centre of the universe and it clearly isn't," he said. Political tragics love hanging out with other political tragics, and that probably means they are not hanging out with Bob and Nancy as much as they should and their reality starts to become a little perverse." Mr Pyne's memoir is out now.