'Dumb mistake': Andrew Broad says pressures of the job took heavy toll

Nationals MP says he’s quitting because he did not want to become a ‘half laughing stock’ figure like Barnaby Joyce

Arranging to meet a woman on a sugar baby website was a “dumb mistake”, Andrew Broad has said, while lamenting that his time in politics had “made me not as nice a person”.

But the National party MP said that not wanting to become a “half laughing-stock” figure like Barnaby Joyce helped spur his decision to quit at the next election, reasoning he could have survived another campaign, despite the scandal, buffeted by the 21% margin in his Victorian seat of Mallee.

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