A new Liberal Party leader

The Australian Liberal Party has just rolled leader Sussan Ley, and replaced her with Angus Taylor. Ley was in the moderate faction and Taylor in the National Right or conservative faction. The Liberals had fallen behind One Nation in recent polls, which is what precipitated the change. However it is far from clear if this will help them recover support.

Only three Australian Liberal leaders had served more than six years – Robert Menzies 20 years, John Howard 16 years and Malcolm Fraser almost eight years.

Ley was leader for only 276 days. The only shorter tenure was Alexander Downer’s 252 days who was between John Hewson and John Howard.

NZ National has longer surviving leaders. Holland did 17 years, Holyoake 15 years, Bolger 11 years, Muldoon 10 years and Key 10 years.

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