It’s being reported in the Melbourne newspapers that the state Liberal leadership of embattled incumbent, John Pesutto, is likely to be challenged before the Victorian Parliament resumes next week.

That may be welcome news to many readers, and to our editors. Indeed, Pesutto needs to take responsibility for his misjudgments and mismanagement of the Moira Deeming fiasco, and be prepared to pay the price of losing his leadership for both his hasty and precipitate moves last year to expel her from his party room, and how he sold these to his Liberal colleagues and the Victorian public.