Following the leadership spill that saw then Opposition Leader Sussan Ley lose the leadership of the Liberal Party and, by extension, the Coalition, there were swift allegations that it was driven by sexism, that it took 80 years for the Liberal Party to have its first leader and that her time came to a rather unceremonious ending in less than one year.
It’s rather clear from the get-go that if Sussan Ley had been an effective opposition leader, such an event wouldn’t have happened; after all, there is no stigma attached to success.
But that isn’t what has occurred; instead, Ley has delivered the Coalition what its new leader, Angus Taylor, accurately describes as its worst position since the Second World War.
