Coalition scrambles for energy policy, Ley circles leadership drain

THE ISSUE OF WHEN LEY WILL HAPPEN

Although he held a series of media interviews yesterday to declare that he was “completely confident” he would keep his job (at least in the short term), everyone believes it is now just a question of when. Susan Ley He will be removed as Liberal leader.

Like Rachel Withers put it in cricket yesterday: “Insiders say either way there will be a leadership battle in the new year; conservatives still deciding which generic-looking A-hole will make the decision (Angus’s [Taylor] or Andrew [Hastie]) to return.”