Andrew Hastie has ruled out an imminent challenge to Sussan Ley’s leadership of the Liberal party after dramatically quitting the shadow cabinet. The 43-year-old said he retainsed an ambition to one day lead the Liberal party, but he was not positioning himself to challenge Ley. “There’s no challenge to Sussan – I support Sussan,” Hastie said on Saturday. Hastie’s personal crusades have split the Liberal party as it wrestles with its future direction after consecutive election defeats. “And if we just write off the teals as being deeply ideological and opposed to the Liberal party, we’re never going to win them back.