For­mer Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Hazel Man­ning has re­ject­ed claims made by Wendy Lewis, who said she once held a key po­si­tion with­in the con­stituen­cy of­fice of the late Prime Min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning.

Hazel Man­ning, the wid­ow of the for­mer prime min­is­ter, re­spond­ed on Face­book this morn­ing af­ter Lewis ap­peared in a Guardian Me­dia in­ter­view on Fri­day dur­ing a walk­a­bout in Mon Re­pos, ex­plain­ing her de­ci­sion to switch al­le­giance to the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) af­ter decades of in­volve­ment in pol­i­tics.

Lewis is now the cam­paign man­ag­er for prospec­tive UNC can­di­date for San Fer­nan­do East, John Michael Al­i­bo­cus. She claimed she had worked close­ly with Patrick Man­ning and the Man­ning fam­i­ly. The San Fer­nan­do East seat was held by Patrick Man­ning for decades and is now rep­re­sent­ed by his son, Bri­an Man­ning.