John Laws has responded to the comments Alan Jones made on 2GB yesterday, saying he is “not overly anxious to perpetuate the discussion that I started yesterday” but “it seems I’ve got very little choice”.

Click here to hear what Laws had to say today on his morning show.

Prime Minister Howard is not being drawn directly on the John Laws’ “lying” statement: “I wasn’t a guest at the dinner party and, frankly, what went on at the dinner party, where I wasn’t a guest, I don’t know and I don’t comment. Alan Jones and I never had the conversation suggested, not even anything remotely resembling it.”