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Andrew Hastie quits Sussan Ley’s frontbench
['Paul Sakkal']
WA Today - Politics / Federal
Andrew Hastie has stunned colleagues and quit the Liberal frontbench on Friday after staking out his own nationalist agenda on migration, manufacturing and net zero.
Hastie, who had been the opposition’s home affairs spokesman, phoned Opposition Leader Sussan Ley to inform her on Friday.
Sources said the Western Australian told her he could no longer maintain shadow cabinet solidarity.
Andrew Hastie quit as the Coalition’s home affairs spokesman on Friday.
“The leader has made it clear that the shadow home affairs minister won’t lead the Coalition’s response to immigration matters or develop the Coalition’s immigration policy,” Hastie said.