Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

I'm quite bemused about how interested the Labor Party is in the internal affairs of the Liberal Party. I think, perhaps, you should pay a bit more attention to your own internal affairs. Let me say that we did have a very good discussion in our party room last night. Overwhelmingly, the party room adopted the new rule: that, if elected to government as Prime Minister, the leader of the parliamentary Liberal Party will remain in that position as Prime Minister until the subsequent election. That is because we respect the will of the Australian people expressed at an election.