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Liberals despair at prospect of 'non-existence' and weigh leadership change
Sussan Ley could face a challenge from Angus Taylor as early as this week, sources say. (ABC News: Matt Roberts/Luke Stimson)
Liberals are openly contemplating a leadership change after a Newspoll published in The Australian showed the Coalition slipping to a primary vote of 18 per cent, behind One Nation.
Jane Hume said the party was at risk of "non-existence" and that the leaders of both the Liberal and National parties should be blamed.
The lower house sits this week, and senators will quiz officials at Senate estimates.
Distraught Liberals are now openly contemplating dumping their leader, Sussan Ley, after yet another opinion poll showed them falling behind One Nation and risking an even worse loss at the next federal election than last year's historic drubbing.
View from The Hill: will disastrous Newspoll trigger Taylor challenge to Ley, despite Coalition patch-up
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Sussan Ley and David Littleproud on Sunday announced an 11th hour patch up of the federal Coalition that the Liberal leader hopes will hold off an early challenge from Angus Taylor.
But on Sunday night it was doubtful whether re-forming the Coalition would prevent Taylor, the opposition defence spokesman, moving this week, with some sources putting a challenge to Ley’s leadership at 50-50 probability.
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Liberals say Ley’s concessions to reunite Coalition may have tipped MPs into Taylor’s camp ahead of expected spill
One MP who now considers a spill inevitable says accepting shorter suspensions for rogue Nationals senators was a significant backdown
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Sussan Ley’s deal to reunite with the Nationals has damaged her credibility and potentially shifted some MPs into her leadership rival Angus Taylor’s corner, according to colleagues who are bracing for a spill as soon as this week.
As Ley told a press conference the majority of colleagues believed the two parties were “stronger togetherâ€, one Liberal MP privately feared the reunion would ultimately lead to the “destruction of the Liberal partyâ€.
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