Liberals weigh up leadership options as Prime Minister Tony Abbott faces criticism
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Nervous Liberal MPs have begun discussing alternative leadership options, and the pros and cons of switching to either Foreign Minister Julie Bishop or former leader Malcolm Turnbull are now being "actively" considered.
Fairfax Media has been told worried backbench MPs have been phoning each other in a state of agitation over the government's continuing woes.
The development is a dangerous one for Prime Minister Tony Abbott and comes as Cabinet figures closed ranks around him on Thursday in the wake of the Australia Day "knightmare" fiasco in which an Australian knighthood was awarded to Prince Philip, the Queen's husband.
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The fat lady is not yet singing but she seems to be out the back tuning up.
Of course the metadata from the phone calls between these backbench MPs will already be in the NSA/ASIO/MI6 hands, and we know they will not abuse it??!!
Malcolm Turnbull, one contender, defended an MI6? agent Peter Wright in the spycatcher case decades ago. He really needs asking did he do it just for the money or will he be calling the dogs off Julian Assange?
