Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has tried to distance herself from a leak of former leader Peter Dutton’s scathing assessment of rebel MP Andrew Hastie as demoted senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price called on Ley to stop the Coalition looking like a “clown show”.

Ley held a scheduled meeting of shadow ministers in Canberra on Monday night, hours after this masthead reported that Dutton had been highly critical of Hastie’s work ethic and policy development in his submissions to the party’s review of the May election drubbing, while immigration spokesman Paul Scarr spoke out for the first time since Hastie’s resignation.

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley and former frontbencher Andrew Hastie. Credit: Marija Ercegovac

Some MPs blamed Ley’s allies for leaking information that cast Hastie, a self

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