When 4BC Breakfast host Neil Breen grilled Treasurer Josh Frydenberg about the leaked texts scandal engulfing the government this morning, the emails started flowing.

“People are saying I’m getting down in the gutter with the Lefties and muck-raking,” Breenie told his audience.

“People think this stuff is trivial … but (the text messages) must be raised, and here is the context in which I raise them…”

Press PLAY for Breenie’s short history lesson, a throwback to a gamechanging meeting between John Howard and Alexander Downer in 2007, which explains why Coalition must get their house in order.