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O’Brien rules himself out from leading the Liberal Party in the event of a challenge to Sussan Ley’s leadership.

No. I’m the Shadow Treasurer and that’s my focus. We have Australians right now feeling poorer by the day, an economy getting weaker. That’s my absolute focus.

I was disappointed when David Littleproud took the decision to split from the coalition. I do believe it’s in the national interest we work together. That’s always been the case. You can’t just come back together willy-nilly and hope for the best. There’s some serious conversations to be had. Sussan reached out to David. David wanted to postpone conversations for this coming week, that’s fair enough. Sussan that. We’ll wait until the National Party meeting is over tomorrow and then of course discussions can begin.

David, I don’t want to add to speculation by engaging in hypotheticals about what colleagues may or may not have spoken about in a meeting. I myself did not attend. There’s been a lot said, I was listening to Phil’s comments and others, I will others make the ever make a colleagues or the may have. That’s a matter for them to answer if you ask them individually.

I do not know the ins and outs of that conversation.

I will allow you to explain what they were speaking about. I wasn’t there. I’m not going to pretend I know. And I’m to come on your show and try to make things up for you. I wasn’t in the meeting. I don’t know, period.

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