The Great Liberal Split of 2025

Angus Taylor and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price were the Liberal Party's last hope.

Today will go down in history as the beginning of the end for the Liberals. Why would you bother voting for them when you can just vote Labor? At least Labor wins elections.

This has nothing to do with gender, and it is all about the dysfunctional NSW Liberals. Indeed, Angus Taylor might be in serious trouble if the last exclusive in the Daily Telegraph is anything to go by.

Conservatives are now starved for choice. There is a clear divide between One Nation and Gerard Rennick supporters. Calls for a conservative unity ticket are misguided – the Liberal Party was that very unity ticket that conservatives are now dreaming of.

In the Unfiltered newsletter, Alexandra Marshall wrote:

I don’t know about you, but I’m electioned out. So, today’s related comments are brief. Sussan Ley beat Angus Taylor for the Liberal leadership yesterday by not much. She is the first female Liberal federal leader: good for her. But her leadership debut was underwhelming, and her quarter-century as an MP doesn’t reveal what absolute convictions she holds. I give her till Christmas next year – at the latest – to shape up the Liberals and get some real centre-right policy out there to prove to anti-Labor voters there’s hope. Otherwise, Taylor and the ambitious likes of hyper-confident Tim Wilson will be breathing hard down her neck. Then again, the thing about having low expectations about someone is that can clear them fairly easily. I doubt she can do even that, but Michael de Percy is even more blunt about her election and what it means.

My opinion piece in The Spectator Australia, The Great Liberal Split of 2025.

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