Roma Britnell and Cindy McLeish say maverick upper house MP Moira Deeming overstepped the mark by threatening legal action over her suspension from the party room.
However, Liberal MPs will now meet for a second time to vote on Deeming’s future, with widespread acceptance – including among her supporters – that she will be booted from the party room for threatening legal action against the party and Pesutto.
“I am absolutely over it, and the situation seems to be getting worse and worse. Last week, the way it unfolded during the week, as far as I was concerned really overstepped the mark.”Britnell said the relationship between Deeming and the Liberal party room had been irreparably damaged, and that she should be expelled. The South-West Coast MP said she decided to co-sign the motion because she wanted to stand up to people who were portraying Deeming’s suspension as an attack on women.
In her statement hours before the expulsion motion was circulated, Deeming said she was moving on and that she looked forward to re-joining the party room at the end of the year. “I was elected as a Liberal; I remain a proud Liberal,” she said.
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