Scott Morrison’s economic pitch straight from Fawlty Towers – just don’t mention the recession | Ben Smee

PM denies claiming economy will fall into recession under ALP as Peter Dutton stands behind his man in double-act deja vu

Scott Morrison has bluntly denied claiming Australia’s economy would fall into recession under Labor, a day after delivering a landmark economic speech that was widely interpreted as being such a warning.

On Tuesday the prime minister said half of all Australians of voting age “will have never experienced a recession in their working lives”.

“I don’t want them to learn how important a strong economy is to each and every single one of them by having them endure the cruel lessons of a weaker economy that would occur under the Labor party,” he said.

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