NSW Liberal MPs expect the party will enter into an alliance with One Nation if the Coalition fails to win enough seats to form government in its own right at next year’s state election, amid signs of a Nationals rout.
Talk of a formal post-election tie-up with One Nation, expressed privately by Liberal MPs, runs counter to Opposition Leader Kellie Sloane’s public position that the existing Liberal-National coalition is the only alternative to Labor.
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