Haunted by the past. Is Sussan Ley’s leadership already over?

This week’s Roy Morgan Poll confirmed the downward spiral for the Coalition. Less than three months into her time as opposition leader, it does not bode well for Sussan Ley. John Adams writes.

Since election night, where the ALP secured 55.2% on a two-party preferred basis, several opinion polls already show that the Coalition under Sussan Ley has gone backwards anywhere between 2% – 4% when compared to the ALP, including this week’s Roy Morgan opinion poll.

It may be just a matter of time before the Liberal-National Coalition parliamentary party move from a state of wait and see, to a state of concern and ultimately to a state of panic culminating in a leadership challenge.

On election night, the consensus among political pundits was that the major factor in the Coalition’s greatest defeat since the 1943 election was the unpopularity of Peter Dutton, his policies and his poorly executed election campaign.

If this were true, one would have expected the Coalition to receive an immediate bounce in the opinion polls as Dutton exited the political stage, but the opposite has happened. And in her first 75 days as Leader, Sussan Ley has made every conceivable mistake in the political book, demonstrating that whatever strategy she has formulated is woefully ill-conceived.

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