“NOW IT’S MY TURN”
He then recalled a conversation with then-Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in 2006, when he was Mr Lee’s principal private secretary.
“The GE was just over, a little bit like now, and I said to him, we can finally take a breather, we can relax,” said the PAP secretary-general.
But Mr Lee had said that there was still urgent work to do, especially in renewing the party.
“I was thinking to myself: ‘why the rush? You have just secured your first election as Prime Minister. Surely you have time’,” he said.
“Now it’s my turn. Now I understand the urgency.”
