"According to media reports, it was left to Turnbull to make the decision.
So Turnbull welched on his previous support for Rudd, if Turnbull wasn't going to support Rudd, he shouldn't have said he would."
Rudd said they met in November, then again in December.
“Once again you stated your support for my candidature. You added that when the time came to lodge my nomination, you now wanted to take it to Cabinet to avoid the perception of a ‘captain’s pick’.
“You also said to me that the Cabinet process would not change the outcome,” Rudd wrote.
A spokesman for the prime minister said on Friday night Rudd’s representation of the December conversation was inaccurate. “The claim there was support in December is wrong,” the prime minister’s spokesman said. “Rudd was told the decision would be made by the cabinet.”
The Rudd letter from May follows a conversation between the two men just before the May budget, when the prime minister indicated to Rudd he was not inclined to support his candidacy for the UN.
Turnbull is understood to have told Rudd in that same conversation Rudd would not have cabinet support to be nominated for the post.
AND _ then the guardian goes on to further quote Rudd's letter confirming that MT had telephoned him in May telling him [KRudd] that neither he [MT] or his cabinet would be supporting my [KRudd] nomination.
"Rudd confirms this in his letter. “In your telephone call you said that neither you nor the cabinet would be supporting my nomination. When I asked the reasons for this, you said that neither you nor the cabinet has the view that I had the qualifications for the position."
Glug your claims about welching are starting to look very hollow when the guardian is releasing paragraphs of proof to the contrary!
