Day: October 5, 2025
Victorian Liberal Sarah Henderson says Perth MP has been ‘sidelined’ for his immigration views but party’s ‘backbench is a very powerful place to be’
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Opposition Leader Sussan Ley faces an increasingly emboldened conservative backbench bloc, Liberal MPs have warned, amid frustration and confusion over the timing of Andrew Hastie’s resignation over immigration policy.
Hastie resigned from the frontbench on Friday, saying Ley had told him he would not have a role in the formation of the Coalition’s immigration policy before the next election, despite holding the home affairs portfolio.
Delegates gather in Manchester as Tory leader unveils scheme to deport 150,000 people a year from the UK
Tories pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice
Good morning. The Conservative party conference is starting in Manchester today – although you could be forgiven for thinking it’s another Reform UK conference, because Kemi Badenoch has already made two huge policy commitments that are straight out of the Nigel Farage manual.
First, on Friday night, she announced that the Tories would withdraw from the European convention on human rights.