Discussions about the new Liberal leader began within hours of the polls closing on Saturday evening, with the next opposition leader facing the difficult task of rebuilding the party after nine years in government and an historic wipeout of moderate MPs.
Former home affairs minister Karen Andrews and Tasmanian MP Bridget Archer have put up their hands for the deputy leadership of the Liberal Party, as Anthony Albanese prepares to be sworn in as prime minister.
Karen Andrews, Peter Dutton, Angus Taylor and Bridget Archer have all expressed interest in leadership positions.But on Monday morning Andrews told Brisbane radio station 4BC she is interested in “what role will allow me to add the most value”. Archer, a Tasmanian MP who has previously crossed the floor to support debate on independent MP Helen Haines’ proposed national integrity commission, said she remained a member of the party “because those [liberal] values, those historic values, mean something to me.”“That’s why I still remain within the party. So that means that I have to play my part in that and I have to be prepared, as do others, to stand up and say so as we move forward.
His message to colleagues, according to MPs who had spoken to him but asked not to be named so they could speak freely, is that the opposition has to take a sensible approach to policy and there should be no “night of the long knives” recriminations over the election loss.
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