Rudd says no way, never again

So maybe I’m wrong then. From AAP:

Kevin Rudd says there are now “no circumstances” under which he would return to the Labor leadership.

…He said to AAP through a spokesman today that he had been consistent that he would not challenge for the leadership and that he would contest the next election as a local member of parliament.

“That position hasn’t changed,” the spokesman said.

“Furthermore, Mr Rudd wishes to make 100 per cent clear to all members of the parliamentary Labor Party, including his own supporters, that there are no circumstances under which he will return to the Labor Party leadership in the future.”

Doesn’t settle it for me. If he’s not coming back he must resign. If he doesn’t resign, he’s coming back, when begged to do so.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.