'Peculiarly Australian form of madness': Malcolm Turnbull has dumped on his former Liberal colleagues for ousting him as prime minister during a BBC interview. Read more:
BBC's Politics Live programHe said he had been removed by his own party because he was on track to beat Labor leader Bill Shorten.
"Basically you could argue that their concern was not that I would lose the election but rather that I would win it," he said."Are you telling me your own party didn't want you to win the next election, that's not credible is it?" a clearly stunned Neil asked."Andrew you've only got to look at the facts.
"The party on any of the objective indications... is in a worse position than it was in August, I mean you can't deny that that's a fact," he said. "It still could win the election, the Liberal government, but its position is much less favourable than it was in August."He has until now confined himself to speeches and closed panel discussions talking primarily about security and in particular Britain's upcoming decision on whether to let the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei supply equipment to build the 5G network.
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