The People's Action Party "was not aware" of the SMS and e-mail exchanges between former Member of Parliament (MP) and Speaker Michael Palmer and Ms Laura Ong.
Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean clarified that he did not know about the exchanges when Mr Palmer had first approached him over his extramarital affair with Ms Ong on Dec 8.
The New Paper revealed in a report last Thursday that it had received the exchanges from an unnamed source on Dec 8, and speculation has been rife that it was this that drove the former MP to resign from politics. Full story
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