Sussan Ley elected as the Liberal Party’s new leader

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Longtime MP for Farrer in New South Wales Sussan Ley has been elected as the new leader of the Liberal Party. Ms Ley had been the Deputy Leader of the party under Peter Dutton since 2022 and was a minister during previous Coalition governments. She won the party leadership 29-25 against fellow NSW MP Angus Taylor.

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00:00We saw the assembled party room make their way outside the doors of that very secret

00:08meeting and we started to hear some of the response to that. Everyone who chose to speak

00:15to the media said they welcomed the result and they were happy with it. This is particularly

00:21key to see that the party files in behind their new leadership team of Susan Lee and also

00:30Ted O'Brien. Susan Lee winning 29 votes to 25 to her leadership rival in Angus Taylor.

00:39In terms of the response, let's take a listen to what Linda Reynolds had to say.

00:45How did you get the result?

00:46Yeah, I did get the result. Australia spoke very clearly to the Liberal Party. We've listened

00:50and we've acted and we're united. Thank you.

00:54Thank you for your leave. Everyone happy with the result?

00:56Absolutely.

00:56That's the final leader. Wonderful.

01:01It is a fairly tight result. A result, only four votes in it when it comes to the party

01:06leader. The result, as you said, Roz, in the deputy ballot between Phil Thompson, who's

01:12from Townsville, and Ted O'Brien, whose office is based in Merichidore on the Sunshine Coast,

01:17was a much easier contest for Ted O'Brien to win in that particular matter. And it is key

01:26now that we see the party file in, fold in, and be united going forward in what is a very

01:36significant task in the rebuild of the party after their worst electoral defeat in history.

01:42As a party, it's important that we now unify behind Susan. She's got, we have a big job

01:50to do. It's not just on the leader. It's us as a party to unify, make sure that we support

01:57her, put the right policies in place, and that comes about from listening. So there are a lot

02:01of lessons from this result as a party we need to take, and we have to do it as a collective.

02:06We have to work together to understand where we went wrong, why we were rejected by the Australian

02:12people. Be humble, listen, learn, and move forward as a collective. It's the only way we can survive.

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