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Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull said Opposition Leader Sussan Ley was caught in a “terrible fishbowl” and allowed the party to be dictated to by right-wing echo chambers.

“You know the Liberal party room has the memory of goldfishes and the eating habits of piranhas. They just seem to keep forgetting and making the same mistake over and over again,” he told the ABC’s Radio Sydney this morning.

“They can put in all the niceties and explanatory footnotes they want about this issue, but the message is very, very clear that the National Party and people like Barnaby Joyce are driving the policy agenda and they are not taking the energy transition seriously.”

Turnbull said the Coalition was marginalizing its own vote by trying to compete for voters who were shifting rightward towards One Nation.

“It sends them into this spiral that has them losing almost all of their seats in the city, losing almost all of their safest seats, losing the lowest vote they have ever had, and now they want to double down and do it again,” he said.

“If you want to fight to the death over who gets 15 percent or 10 percent, which Pauline Hanson persuades might be willing to give you, knock yourself out, but that’s never the way to get back into the government.”