Whoever said or emailed what to whom, David Leyonhjelm’s Adler shotgun blasted through Coalition ranks last week. What this week’s Spectator Australia editorial calls ‘Adlergate’ has badly damaged Malcolm Turnbull, as his Newspoll approval rating plunged to depths worse than Tony Abbott’s before his ouster.
As Philip Hudson pointed out in the Australian, only one PM has ever recovered to win an election from a satisfaction of less than 30 per cent: John Howard in 2001.
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