Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak has reportedly claimed on Twitter that the report of his wife’s now notorious fashion-shopping spree in Sydney earlier this year ‘was a wildly exaggerated story deliberately fabricated to affect people’s perception of their leaders’.

No surprise at the falsehood of this statement. As the whole world knows very well by now, the only way to stop 1Malaysia’s great misleader from lying would be to confiscate his iPhone and sew his lips together.