Fed: ALP now most bitterly divided: PM

AAP General News (Australia)
12-02-2003
Fed: ALP now most bitterly divided: PM

CANBERRA, Dec 2 AAP - The federal Labor Party was now the most bitterly divided it
had been in seven years, Prime Minister John Howard said today.

Mr Howard, who congratulated Mark Latham for becoming Labor's new leader, said the
ALP was less fit to govern now because of its leadership woes.

"I do have to observe the Labor Party now is less fit to govern than it's been at any
time over the last seven-and-a-half years," he told Sky News.

"Not only is the Labor Party bitterly divided over policy, but now it's bitterly divided
over personalities and leadership."

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