Former PM says he will back new Liberal leader and downplays loss, saying party ‘will regroup’
Peter Dutton – the rightwinger Morrison defeated– has confirmed that he will lead the Liberal party in opposition. Dutton will be able to take the opposition leadership unopposed because the moderate-backed candidate Josh Frydenberg lost his seat on Saturday night.
“Josh was a huge part of the party’s future and I certainly hope he still is in some way,” Morrison said. He also lashed the teal independents who picked up six Liberal seats, saying they had run “very vicious and brutal campaigns – they played things very hard on the ground”. will struggle in the future to form majority governments, Morrison expressed fatalism about the rebuff from voters: “I leave, not with regrets, but with a great sense of gratitude.”
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