{"id":13415,"date":"2017-10-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/tony-abbott-talks-about-the-one-way-he-could-become-pm-again\/"},"modified":"2017-10-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T00:00:00","slug":"tony-abbott-talks-about-the-one-way-he-could-become-pm-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/tony-abbott-talks-about-the-one-way-he-could-become-pm-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Abbott Talks About The One Way He Could Become PM Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Former PM Tony Abbott says the only way he would be PM again is if his Liberal colleagues call on him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"600\" width=\"800\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/abbott.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cWhen you are an ex the only way you can come back is if you\u2019re drafted and I think that is a pretty rare and unusual business in politics,\u201d Mr Abbott told 2GB on Monday.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cYou are talking about hypothetical&#8230; the only way an ex could ever come back would be by way of a draft and that is almost impossible to imagine.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr Abbott\u2019s comments come as Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull closes in on 30 Newspoll losses in a row, which was a reason Mr Turnbull cited for challenging Mr Abbott in 2015. His latest is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/national-affairs\/newspoll-malcolm-turnbull-coalition-lose-ground-to-bill-shorten\/news-story\/0f4353da7817a380cb538982827029b2\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mr Turnbull\u2019s 21<sup>st<\/sup> consecutive loss<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TonyAbbottMHR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TonyAbbottMHR<\/a> talks to Ray Hadley about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TurnbullMalcolm?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TurnbullMalcolm<\/a> getting closer to 30 Newspoll loses LISTEN: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GWCPLcbrm1\">https:\/\/t.co\/GWCPLcbrm1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/auspol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#auspol<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eoyX3DcwTq\">pic.twitter.com\/eoyX3DcwTq<\/a><\/p>&mdash; 2GB 873 (@2GB873) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/2GB873\/status\/919765755314429952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former PM Tony Abbott says the only way he would be PM again is if his Liberal colleagues call on him. \u201cWhen you are an ex the only way you can come back is if you\u2019re drafted and I think that is a pretty rare and unusual business in politics,\u201d Mr Abbott told 2GB on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-13415","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) - 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