At a briefing today, Cabinet Spokesman Rajitha Senaratne vehemently countered the negative rumours surrounding his role, stating that ‘It is absolutely not true that all of my official statements are immediately contradicted by the Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremasinghe’.

This official statement was immediately contradicted by the Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremasinghe, who said ‘It’s true – I love contradicting that bugger; the face he makes every time I do it is hilarious’.