Fed: Turnbull has no bitterness or resentment=2

AAP General News (Australia)
04-06-2010
Fed: Turnbull has no bitterness or resentment=2

Mr Turnbull said the ambition to become prime minister had been thrusted on to him.

"A lot of people have projected on to me very grand ambitions," he said.

"Clearly it was my ambition to be prime minister because I was leader of the opposition."

Mr Turnbull said he had no dreams of leadership in his first term, when Peter Costello
seemed to have the succession "completely sewn up".

"My ambition was to make the best and most effective contribution that I could so long
as I was there, and to throw everything I had into my work as a member of parliament,"

he said.

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