Between the growing leaks from within the Liberal Party on how Opposition Leader Sussan Ley’s leadership is terminal and the odds of bookies now showing Andrew Hastie as the odds-on favourite to be the next leader of the Coalition, Hastie’s ascension to the top job on the Australian right is increasingly seen to be a foregone conclusion.
But looking at the latest Newspoll, Hastie’s support currently stems from a relatively limited base of voters and not from the cohort the Coalition needs to win back to form government.
Among voters aged 18 to 34, just 9% back Hastie as the preferred leader of the Coalition, with Ley holding 24% of the support.
