{"id":10020,"date":"2018-08-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/reports-turnbull-will-step-aside-to-allow-scott-morrison-to-run-for-lib-leadership\/"},"modified":"2018-08-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T00:00:00","slug":"reports-turnbull-will-step-aside-to-allow-scott-morrison-to-run-for-lib-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/reports-turnbull-will-step-aside-to-allow-scott-morrison-to-run-for-lib-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports Turnbull Will Step Aside To Allow Scott Morrison To Run For Lib Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>PM Malcolm Turnbull could step aside and make way for Treasurer Scott Morrison to run for leadership of the Liberal party, reports Sky News.<\/h3>\n<p>News Corp now says it has confirmed the Sky story with a senior minister.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lanai Scarr:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cNews Corp has confirmed from a senior government Minister that Treasurer Scott Morrison will run for the Liberal leadership against Peter Dutton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMalcolm Turnbull will step aside to allow ScoMo to run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScoMo has been seen by News Corp reporters constantly in and out of the Prime Minister&#8217;s office this morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr Morrison was also spotted speaking to Peter Dutton, Greg Hunt and Michael Keenan as he left the House of Representatives after the vote on whether to refer Mr Dutton to the High Court.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means a leadership spill is imminent.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Scott Morrison is planning to run against Peter Dutton &#8211; as reported first in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dailytelegraph?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dailytelegraph<\/a> yesterday and today &#8211; and I&#39;m hearing Greg Hunt will be his Treasurer. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/libspill?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#libspill<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sharri Markson (@SharriMarkson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SharriMarkson\/status\/1032428289103523843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 23, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>&#13;\n&#13;\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DEVELOPING: Sky News understands Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TurnbullMalcolm?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TurnbullMalcolm<\/a> will stand aside with Treasurer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottMorrisonMP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ScottMorrisonMP<\/a> to contest the leadership.<br><br>FULL COVERAGE: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Foxtel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Foxtel<\/a> channel 103 &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UFTF06werJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/UFTF06werJ<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/auspol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#auspol<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/libspill?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#libspill<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/93e9QHhQB7\">pic.twitter.com\/93e9QHhQB7<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sky News Australia (@SkyNewsAust) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyNewsAust\/status\/1032426989380984832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 23, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM Malcolm Turnbull could step aside and make way for Treasurer Scott Morrison to run for leadership of the Liberal party, reports Sky News. News Corp now says it has confirmed the Sky story with a senior minister. According to Lanai Scarr: \u201cNews Corp has confirmed from a senior government Minister that Treasurer Scott Morrison [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-10020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Reports Turnbull Will Step Aside To Allow Scott Morrison To Run For Lib Leadership - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/reports-turnbull-will-step-aside-to-allow-scott-morrison-to-run-for-lib-leadership\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Reports Turnbull Will Step Aside To Allow Scott Morrison To Run For Lib Leadership\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PM Malcolm Turnbull could step aside and make way for Treasurer Scott Morrison to run for leadership of the Liberal party, reports Sky News. 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