Published: November 25, 2018
Scott Ryan says ideological debates isolating traditional base, Josh Frydenberg says party at best when it is ‘broad church’ and Tim Wilson says result has federal implications
The Senate president, Scott Ryan, has called on the Liberal party to return to its more moderate roots, saying significant swings against the party in Victoria’s blue-chip heartland of Brighton, Box Hill, Kew and Hawthorn showed the Liberal party was losing its electoral base.
Speaking on Radio National on Monday, Ryan said those inner-city affluent seats were “the birthplace of the Liberal party” and swings of more than 8% to Labor in those areas, as well as the expected Labor win in Box Hill for the first time in 26 years, should be taken seriously.
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