Why leading Liberals have descended on London this week
Three ex-PMs, two ex-deputy PMs, at least two shadow ministers, and dozens more from the centre-right of Australian politics are helping inaugurate a new think-tank-style body.
London | If you’ve been looking for your local Liberal or National MP this week, chances are the place to find them was the Qantas lounge. They’ve joined three former prime ministers who jetted to London for what must be one of the biggest transnational conservative confabs ever seen.
Among the 1500 delegates in a hangar-sized venue in east London were John Howard, Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison; former deputy PMs John Anderson and Barnaby Joyce; shadow ministers Angus Taylor, Andrew Hastie, James Paterson and Jacinta Price; and party luminaries such as former trade minister Dan Tehan and former NSW premier Dominic Perrottet.
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Hans van Leeuwen is The Australian Financial Review’s former Europe correspondent. He is now International Economy editor for The Telegraph UK.
