<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/angus-taylor-social-media-facebook-post-old-blunder-coming-back-to-haunt-him/bea9a512-565f-4205-a093-49b2dd742536" rel="" target="" title="Angus Taylor"><span>Angus Taylor</span></a><span> has emerged victorious from today's Liberal Party spill to become the new opposition leader.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Taylor successfully challenged </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/sussan-ley" rel="" target="_blank" title="Sussan Ley"><span>Sussan Ley</span></a><span>, the first woman ever elected to lead the federal Liberals, after just nine months in the job following the party's thumping 2025 federal election defeat.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Hume MP snatched the top job from Ley, winning the vote with a better-than-expected 34-17 margin during a party room meeting at Parliament House in Canberra.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>LIVE UPDATES:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/liberal-leadership-spill-angus-taylor-sussan-ley-to-fight-for-opposition-leader-title/91f3b270-02bb-45d7-bd3e-c2d15d54b558" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Angus Taylor successfully challenges Sussan Ley for Liberal leadership</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/sydney-protests-central-islamic-body-calls-for-public-apology-for-town-hall-protest/91293789-4885-414f-ba6b-9724bc084751" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Central Islamic body calls for public apology for Town Hall protest</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The one-time shadow treasurer set the wheels in motion for the spill earlier this week after resigning from the frontbench before claiming he believed Ley was unable to lead the party.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Today's spill had been described as a "change-or-die" moment for the Liberals by senior conservative senator James Paterson.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/liberal-party-leadership-spill-angus-taylor-defeats-sussan-ley/e02a6189-6fb5-4262-af53-7c5acea1c826" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><span>More to come.</span></em></div></div>