‘The minute my team-mates knew Malcolm was gone, they left,’ says Liberal MP who stood by Turnbull until the end
The day before Malcolm Turnbull lost the prime ministership, Craig Laundy called home. “On Thursday, in the middle of the day, when I knew we were gone, I rang my wife and said why don’t you jump on a plane and come down here because Malcolm and Lucy are going to need some support this afternoon and tonight.”
The call was motivated by the most basic of human instincts, empathy. The Sydney Liberal moderate, then on Turnbull’s frontbench, was concerned about the prime minister, not as a boss, or as someone to cultivate and flatter, but as a human being. He saw a man under exceptional pressure and understood the toll that would take on his spouse. Laundy’s wife got on the plane, and they spent Turnbull’s last night in the job “chatting through things, and consoling, basically”.
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