Former Prime Minister John Howard has fiercely rebuked Anthony Albanese’s comments calling the 1975 dismissal of Gough Whitlam “illegitimate and political”.

Howard asserted that the current Labor Party, by continuing to challenge the constitutional validity of the event 50 years later, is simply demonstrating that they are “poor losers” unwilling to accept the history of the constitutional crisis.

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