Who blabbed to Oakes, Kevin?
JONES: You actually set (Rudd) up, believing evidently he is leaking to Laurie Oakes. Latham: Yeah. And one of the useful things in the otherwise hopeless Lagan book is that Gartrell fingers Rudd as the leaker of that material. They don't name him, but they say something like, "a senior shadow Labor minister interested in foreign affairs leaked the polling to Oakes". Jones: Did you organise this by yourself? Latham: I told him a few things that weren't true about our polling results, wondering if they'd bob up in Oakes's column because Rudd had been feeding stuff to Oakes for some time, in my assessment. And lo and behold, shortly thereafter, the disinformation, as they call it in the intelligence network - Rudd'd know this, as a spooky sort of character - the disinformation bobs up, word for word, in Oakes's article. Rudd's the leaker. So that proved that and if we'd won, if he'd kept his spot on the front bench, he wouldn't have been minister for foreign affairs, he would've been much lower in the pecking order, because he is a leaking, treacherous piece of work. Jones: You were actually going to put him in the ministry for the South Pacific. Latham: Yeah. If I had done, I would've explained to the caucus this leaking and treacherous role that he'd played, and I assume I would've been supported by the national secretary and I think the caucus would've thought on that basis Rudd didn't deserve to be a cabinet minister in a Labor government - he could go to the outer ministry.
Some Labor insiders believe Mr Rudd was the source of the apparent leak and one Labor figure told the ABC that Ms Gillard would be "stark raving mad" to honour her commitment to bring the former prime minister back on to the front bench after the federal election.
Originally published as Who blabbed to Oakes, Kevin?
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