Speculation arises over Sussan Ley’s future as liberal party leader

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There's renewed speculation around Sussan ley's future as leader of the liberal party with liberal backbencher Sarah Henderson saying she thinks Ms Ley is losing support within the party room.

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00:00Some strong comments from Senator Sarah Henderson this morning talking about Susan Lee's leadership

00:08and the party more broadly, saying that she thinks it's the worst position it's ever been

00:12in since she began in Parliament in 2013, saying it's dire, she doesn't support the

00:19way things are going right now.

00:21Of course, the Liberal Party has been facing these ongoing discussions and this internal

00:26battle about net zero, particularly over recent days, of course, since the Nationals, their

00:31junior coalition party, decided to dump the pledge to reach net zero by 2050.

00:38And of course, ever since becoming the leader of the Liberal Party, Susan Lee has really faced

00:42rolling challenges, think Jacinta Nappajimpa-Price and Andrew Hastie.

00:46But nonetheless, these are strong comments from Sarah Henderson this morning.

00:50Take a listen.

00:50We know things are dire at the moment and I can't pretend that things are going well.

00:59And I would be, I would not be speaking the truth.

01:02I would not be authentic if I tried to pretend that things were going OK.

01:07Look, I think there's increasing concern in our party as to the way we are going.

01:12Now, Sarah Henderson did lose her position as a shadow minister under Susan Lee's leadership

01:19and she said at the time when that happened that she was very disappointed.

01:22Now, we've come down here to this Liberal function where they're meeting with various

01:27business groups to speak to some of Susan Lee's comments.

01:30We know that the leader herself is inside, but we haven't actually seen her yet.

01:34But we've seen some of her colleagues, including Angus Taylor, Dave Sharma.

01:39And look, a number of them have sought to hose down this idea that there's any threat

01:44under Susan Lee's leadership.

01:46Sarah Henderson says that Susan Lee is in support within the party room.

01:50Do you agree?

01:51No, I don't think that's right.

01:52Is her leadership still safe?

01:54Yes, it is.

01:55I think Susan is well established as leader and will be with us through the next election.

02:01Are you planning to roll her?

02:03Absolutely not.

02:05Now, as for the next steps for the Liberal Party in terms of net zero, the MPs, the entire

02:11party room are coming back here to Canberra on Wednesday.

02:14They're going to thrash out their position on net zero.

02:17The following day, Thursday, the shadow ministry will meet.

02:20And then on Sunday, they'll hold this joint virtual meeting with the nationals as a coalition

02:26to try and reach some sort of position on net zero.

02:29But of course, as I already mentioned, the nationals have dumped the pledge.

02:33What are you doing?

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