As Liberal MPs headed into the party room to decide the future direction of their party news has emerged that Angus Taylor will be the party’s new leader.
Reports suggest Taylor won with 34 votes to embattled current leader Sussan Ley attracting just 17 supporters.
Four candidates have stood for party’s deputy leadership position. Dan Tehan, Melissas Price, Jane Hume and current deputy Ted O’Brien all offered their services.
After a series of votes Jane Hume emerged as the victor. Price and Tehan were knocked out in the first two rounds, and Hume then won 30 votes to 20 over O’Brien.
Angus Taylor joined the parliament at the 2013 election. He represents the New South Wales regional seat of Hume. He’s a Rhodes scholar and fourth generation farmer who grew up on a cattle property and served as the President of the NSW Farmer’s Federation.
Prior to joining parliament, he worked as a management consultant for nearly two decades largely in the agriculture space on a global level. He served as a Minister in the Turnbull government as the Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister for Cities and Digital Transformation. After the 2016 election he joined the front bench as Minister for Law Enforcement and Cyber Security, and later Minister for Energy under Scott Morrison.
Taylor served as Shadow Treasurer under Peter Dutton. In the wake of the 2025 election defeat a lot of the blame is being pointed at Taylor as the opposition’s economic policies and push for nuclear power failed to bring in the votes.
During his time in parliament Taylor has made the headlines many times including controversies over water rights, land clearing, presenting an allegedly forged document to parliament, accusations he made up a story about writer Naomi Wolf, concerns about him misquoting a High Court judge, and one time when he appeared to respond to his own social media post saying “Well done Angus” – something which has become a political meme.
