The Panama Scandal was one of the most disappointing events that happened in the last three years of his legislature, the Prime Minister said today. In an interview with Lovin Malta, the Panama debacle, together with the death of hundreds of people off Lampedusa, were the two most challenging issues he had to face so far.

Dr Joseph Muscat described the Panama Papers story as "disappointing" because it dented people's trust in the whole political system. "I need to work hard to rebuild that trust. Not only me, but I think people do understand what I stand for."

Replying to questions by Chris Peregin, the Prime Minister said that he felt disappointed, rather than betrayed, by the stories circulating about his two close colleagues. "I was so disappointed that the good things we were doing during that period went by unnoticed and people were focusing on just this issue."

Asked about the audits, one of which commissioned by Minister Konrad Mizzi himself, the Prime Minister said that these take time and that oce they are concluded, they will be presented to the public.

"I think that we let people down. People expect more. It's no excuse saying that our predecessors did worse things. But I think that responsibility was shouldered, decisions were taken and now we are moving on from this and we're showing it in each and every sector that we're tackling." 

In the interview, Dr Muscat speaks about the police force and Brexit. On the latter, he said he feels annoyed at the fact that there was no plan B.

He described UK's foreign secretary Boris Johnson as "nice guy" and that he believes Mr Johnson is "getting to grips with the real world".