Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

Firstly, I reject the premise of the question. My colleagues have said nothing of the sort. Secondly, the question that Senator Collins tacked on at the end has been answered on many, many occasions. The truth is that, under our system of parliament, to be Prime Minister you have to have the confidence of a majority of the members in your party room, and the majority of members in our party room determined that Mr Morrison and Mr Frydenberg should be the leader and deputy leader of our party. If you look at the record, that is what I said in this chamber in the question time after those events.