Politics

Michael McCormack replaces Barnaby Joyce as Deputy Prime Minister

Andrew Tillett and Tom McIlroy

Updated Feb 26, 2018 – 9.03am, first published at 7.32am

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Federal Nationals MPs have chosen Veterans' Affairs Minister Michael McCormack to replace Barnaby Joyce as the party's leader and deputy prime minister.

Mr McCormack was elected after defeating high-profile Queensland MP George Christensen in the Nationals' party room on Monday morning, days after Mr Joyce resigned over the ongoing scandal from his affair with a former staffer and amid new allegations of sexual harassment by a Western Australian woman.

Andrew Tillett writes on politics, foreign affairs, defence and security from the Canberra press gallery.

Tom McIlroy is the Financial Review’s Canberra bureau chief based in the press gallery at Parliament House. He was previously the AFR’s political correspondent.