Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull, the man he ousted as Liberal Party leader, have increased their co-operation in recent months. Source: The Advertiser
MALCOLM Turnbull has sheathed his leadership sword and become a solid member of the Liberal team working towards the election of an Abbott Coalition government next year.
The former Liberal leader is making it clear there will be no challenge for the leadership before the next election and that his aim is to be a senior, influential member of the Coalition cabinet should Tony Abbott win government, The Australian reports.
After months of co-operation between the former opposition leader and the man who replaced him after the party division over the carbon emissions trading scheme in 2009, a new stability and certainty is emerging within the senior Coalition ranks.
As Labor uses Mr Turnbull's standing with votyers to try to drive a wedge into the Liberals, Mr Abbott and Mr Turnbull have been in "close and regular personal contact" co-ordinating how to handle the prickly political issues of Mr Abbott's defeat of Mr Turnbull as Liberal leader, Mr Turnbull's continuing popular appeal, policy differences over carbon pricing and Julia Gillard's campaign against Mr Abbott.
Read more on the leadership issue at The Australian
The increased contact comes as Mr Turnbull revealed on ABC's QandA program that "thousands and thousands of people" have urged him to set up his own political party.
But but he is sticking with the Liberals - and Mr Abbott - where he expects to be an "influential" member of an Abbott Government.
Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull react to a question from the Q&A audience suggesting they should start a new political party.
"I will be part of his team, influential, at the cabinet table," he said.
"Look, I'm not going to give you any BS. I've had thousands and thousands of people propose that, you know, I should set up a new political party and I've always said to them the same thing that I'm saying to you, that I'm committed to the Liberal Party."
Read more at The Australian
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