Dutton supporters rally as second challenge to Turnbull's leadership looms

Prime minister’s leadership appears terminal with resignation of key frontbenchers and conservatives lining up behind Dutton

The Dutton camp is continuing to foment the Coalition’s leadership crisis, with ministers who supported the former home affairs minister in Tuesday’s snap leadership ballot tendering their resignations as a prelude to a second challenge.

Frontbenchers, including Michael Sukkar, Angus Taylor, Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, Zed Seselja and Queenslander James McGrath – who is a former member of the prime minister’s inner circle – offered to quit their posts on Tuesday night after outing themselves as Dutton supporters, the first of a sequence of expected departures.

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