Fletcher’s resignation opens a vacancy in a crucial marginal seat, which Fletcher only just managed to hold after a challenge from a teal independent candidate in 2022.
Coalition frontbencher and former minister Paul Fletcher is resigning from politics, opening a vacancy in a crucial marginal seat ahead of the election and reducing further the leadership of the moderate wing of the Liberal Party.
Another leading moderate, opposition foreign affairs spokesman Simon Birmingham, quit his Senate seat last month.
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