The Liberals suffered a bad loss in Pittwater on Saturday,but NSW Opposition Leader Mark Speakman says a “perfect storm” conspired against the party and his MPs are still backing him in.
The most interesting part of this byelection is what it means for Mark Speakman,for whom 2024 has oscillated between horror and vaudeville.
The NSW Liberals have finally read the room. But their problems are not disappearing.
Conservatives wrote to party members saying Mark Speakman had made “sad” claims and “issued a blatant challenge to the leadership of Peter Dutton”.
The Liberal Party’s federal executive voted to include Rob Stokes on a committee to take over the NSW division. Stokes was shocked to read about it in the Herald,then declined to accept.
The decision to keep the shadow attorney-general on the frontbench came with the party engulfed in crisis over the failure to nominate 140 candidates in the September 14 council elections.
2GB shock jock outs two “cowardly” conservative Liberal MPs,Alister Henskens and Anthony Roberts,claiming the pair have been privately texting him to undermine Mark Speakman.
The NSW Liberals sacked state director Richard Shields after a catastrophic blunder left the party without 140 candidates in 16 councils for next month’s local government elections.
Over 130 Liberal candidates in 16 councils have not been nominated for next month’s election. See whether your local council has been affected.
While the Liberal Party’s NSW director Richard Shields attended the opening of a children’s playground on Wednesday,staff were “in meltdown” over a catastrophic failure to nominate council candidates before deadline.
State director Richard Shields has dismissed calls for his resignation as “premature” after the party failed to register many candidates for local government elections next month.