The Prime Minister’s disgraced former Chief of Staff Keith Schembri cooly told journalists that he did not betray the Labour Party but rather gave them “10 historic wins”.

Faced by the press following his testimony in Yorgen Fenech’s constitutional case to have Inspector Keith Arnaud removed from the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder case, Schembri was asked whether he agreed that he “betrayed” the party, after many of his former colleagues called him a “traitor” in the wake of his resignation.

“I have no apology [to Labour voters] because I am not a traitor. Of course not, I gave them historic wins. If I hurt them I’m sorry, but I don’t feel like I did,” Schembri said.

Schembri refused to answer questions on the case, namely his 24-minute conversation with Fenech the night of his arrest, and his decision to rubbish both Fenech and middleman Melvin Theuma’s claims that he was leaking sensitive information to them, including details over their arrests.

“I said everything in court,” he said.

Schembri was ordered to speak at today’s trial after failing to turn up to yesterday’s sitting.