Government dismisses report on ministerial changes

A government spokesman this morning dismissed as 'speculative and fiction' a newspaper report that Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of European Affairs Louis Grech is set to resign, for personal reasons, and that Manuel Mallia will replace him. According to the report Labour MP Michael Falzon will take over the ministerial  portfolio of home affairs and national security. 'If Simon Busuttil wants to understand why Stamperija is out of business, he just needs to read the fiction in today's Mument, a total lie," Kurt Farrugia, head of government communications, said in a tweet.