Angus Taylor has been elected the Liberal party’s new leader, ousting Sussan Ley in a partyroom ballot, 34 votes to 17.
The stronger than expected victory sees the conservative and former shadow defence minister become the party’s 17th leader, ending Ley’s nine-month tenure as Australia’s first female opposition leader.
Ley said she would quit parliament within weeks, in a bid to provide clear air for Taylor’s leadership, noting it was “something that’s not always afforded to leaders.”
A byelection in Ley’s seat of Farrer, in regional New South Wales, sets up an immediate c
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