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Angus Taylor is not capable of leading the Liberal Party, fellow party member Hollie Hughes has said, and she would not be voting for him if he put his hand up for the leadership.
Here are her comments in full:
I have concerns about [Taylor’s] capability. I feel that we have zero economic policy to sell.
I don’t know what he’s been doing for three years. There was no tax policy, no economic narrative and the fact that we’re in a massive cost of living crisis and Jim Chalmers has basically skated through unscathed and I was receiving that feedback even from Labor MPs who were like, are you serious? What’s going on? The economy’s in a pretty bad state and Jim has had no challenges put up to him.
And they disappeared into some form of vortex and we never heard anything about anything back from anybody … It’s not just me, I’ve spoken to plenty of other shadow ministers who had the same experience.
… It’s hugely frustrating. For me some of the things I proposed that got no feedback … one of them was a men’s mental health policy, I’d actually identified some savings that could fund it … but then to see during the campaign Albanese to announce a men’s mental health package that was not the same as I had proposed but to not then have anything to say was really frustrating.
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