Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull does not believe the Scott Morrison-led Coalition deserved to win the 2019 federal election.

And he criticised Mr Morrison’s bid to portray himself as the “daggy dad” from the suburbs during the election campaign as cringeworthy.

“He’s a professional politician who understands marketing and messaging better than most,” Mr Turnbull writes in his memoir, A Bigger Picture, The Australian reported on Thursday.

“His cringeworthy ‘daggy dad’ persona is more exaggerated than it is conflated, but in net terms it probably helped.

“All that aside, however, the truth is that Labor lost the election that the Coalition, after the August coup, did not deserve to win.”

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said the memoir would likely end up on his bookshelf but for now he remained focused on the government’s coronavirus response.

“I’m not going into the entrails of the past,” Mr Frydenberg told Sky on Thursday.

“When I get a second, I’ll start reading books again.”

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