Australia’s Malcolm Turnbull was under pressure to resign on Thursday after another three senior ministers quit his government, just two days after the prime minister scraped through a leadership challenge.
“It’s with great sadness and a heavy heart that we went to see the prime minister yesterday afternoon to advise him that in our judgement he no longer enjoyed the support of the majority of members in the Liberal Party party room,” Finance Minister Mathias Cormann told newsmen in Canberra.
Cormann said he, Jobs and Innovation Minister Michaelia Cash and Communications Minister Mitch Fifield had told Turnbull it was “in the best interests of the Liberal Party to help manage an orderly transition to a new leader.”
Their statement came hours after former home affairs minister Peter Dutton announced that he had challenged Turnbull to another party leadership contest,…
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