{"id":9583,"date":"2018-10-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/the-nationals-could-be-about-to-reappoint-barnaby-joyce-as-leader\/"},"modified":"2018-10-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T00:00:00","slug":"the-nationals-could-be-about-to-reappoint-barnaby-joyce-as-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/the-nationals-could-be-about-to-reappoint-barnaby-joyce-as-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nationals Could Be About To Reappoint Barnaby Joyce As Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Former supporters of Nationals leader Michael McCormack have reportedly deserted the Deputy Prime Minister in favour of previous leader Barnaby Joyce.<\/h3>\n<p>According to The Daily Telegraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cNationals MPs who want a return to Barnaby Joyce are discussing moving a spill motion\u00ad against Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack as early as next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe escalating campaign against his leadership prompted Mr McCormack to last night make a pitch for stability in the party, telling The Daily Telegraph he was delivering for regional voters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut some of his formerly staunch supporters have deserted him, accusing him of weakness towards the Liberals and failing to cut-through to voters.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr Joyce has told Sky News he would accept the leadership if it was offered to him.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019ve always said that if anything was offered to me I\u2019d take it. If it came up and if it was offered to me I\u2019d take it but I\u2019m not touting for it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">EXCLUSIVE: NATIONALS MPs who want a return to Barnaby Joyce are discussing moving a spill motion\u00ad against Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack, as some of his formerly staunch supporters have deserted him. Via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SharriMarkson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SharriMarkson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SheradynNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SheradynNews<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rharris334?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@rharris334<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lhWPpk21EE\">https:\/\/t.co\/lhWPpk21EE<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Daily Telegraph (@dailytelegraph) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dailytelegraph\/status\/1052658980101734403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former supporters of Nationals leader Michael McCormack have reportedly deserted the Deputy Prime Minister in favour of previous leader Barnaby Joyce. According to The Daily Telegraph: \u201cNationals MPs who want a return to Barnaby Joyce are discussing moving a spill motion\u00ad against Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack as early as next week. \u201cThe escalating campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1325,"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-9583","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>The Nationals Could Be About To Reappoint Barnaby Joyce As Leader - 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\/the-nationals-could-be-about-to-reappoint-barnaby-joyce-as-leader\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Nationals Could Be About To Reappoint Barnaby Joyce As Leader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former supporters of Nationals leader Michael McCormack have reportedly deserted the Deputy Prime Minister in favour of previous leader Barnaby Joyce. 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