Umno secretary-general Annuar Musa has denied that the party’s MPs had walked out of the Dewan Rakyat to protest Speaker Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof’s swearing-in ceremony yesterday.

Instead, he said they had left to address the press.

“We had merely left (the chamber) to speak to the media,” Annuar was quoted as saying by the New Straits Times.