<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Labor has released an attack ad on new Liberal leader Angus Taylor just minutes after he won this morning's leadership spill.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/liberal-party-leadership-spill-what-lies-ahead-for-angus-taylor-after-successful-challenge-charles-croucher/f65881f4-c845-491f-b314-8df9987f9ad6" rel="" target="" title="Taylor was announced as the new opposition leader"><span>Taylor was announced as the new opposition leader</span></a><span> after defeating Sussan Ley 34 votes to 17, with Jane Hume elected his deputy.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In response, a video captioned "The problem isn't the leader, it's the Liberals" dropped on ALP social media around 10.30am AEDT, less than an hour after Taylor was announced to have won the spill.</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>HAPPENING NOW:</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="" title="Angus Taylor elected new leader for Liberal Party"><strong><span>Angus Taylor elected new leader for Liberal Party</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The ad follows a popular refrain of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, that it wouldn't matter who was in the opposition top job, as they're "just another Liberal".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"New Liberal leader Angus Taylor, a Morrison-Dutton leftover, was behind election policies for higher taxes, sacking workers, removing work from home, and he undermined the Liberals' first female leader," the voiceover reads.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Angus Taylor, just another Liberal."</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/angus-taylor-new-labor-attack-ad-drops-less-than-an-hour-after-new-liberal-leader-named-politics-news/fc1362b1-47e6-44eb-ab99-fdc307c5a856" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Labor has had sufficient time to prepare, given rumblings of a leadership spill began weeks ago, and Ley was dogged by rumours of a potential challenge by Taylor or fellow conservative MP Andrew Hastie for all of her nine months in the job.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Speculation has been particularly rife since this year – Taylor and Hastie met privately in late January while in Melbourne for the funeral of former Liberal MP Katie Allen.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Two days after that meeting, Hastie ruled himself out of any potential leadership content, saying he didn't believe he had the support to become leader.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>On Sunday night, the latest Newspoll revealed the Liberals' primary vote had dropped to just 18 per cent, behind One Nation, and by Wednesday Taylor had resigned from the shadow frontbench.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><em><span>NEVER MISS A STORY:</span></em></strong><span> </span><em><span>Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.</span></em></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><ul><li><strong><em><span>Download the 9NEWS App here via</span></em></strong><span> </span><a href="https://apps.apple.com/au/app/9news/id1010533727" target="_blank" title=""><strong><em><span>Apple</span></em></strong></a><span> </span><strong><em><span>and</span></em></strong><span> </span><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nineNewsAlerts.nine.com&hl=en_AU&pli=1" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>Google Play</span></em></strong></a></li><li><strong><em><span>Make 9News your preferred source on Google by</span></em></strong><span> </span><a href="https://9.nine.com.au/8x987w" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>ticking this box here</span></em></strong></a></li><li><strong><em><span>Sign up to</span></em></strong><span> </span><a href="https://login.nine.com.au/edm?client_id=nineatnine" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>our breaking newsletter here</span></em></strong></a></li></ul></div></div>
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