Rogue MP Barnaby Joyce will not sit with the Nationals when they meet in Canberra after declaring his relationship with leader David Littleproud had irreparably broken down.

But the former deputy prime minister has ruled out representing his electorate of New England as an independent, as speculation runs rampant that he will defect to Pauline Hanson's One Nation.

Pressed on whether he would meet with Senator Hanson while parliament sits over the next fortnight, Mr Joyce said it was "a free country."

"I'll meet with Pauline Hanson, I've met with Pauline Hanson before," he told reporters in Canberra on Monday.

"You're allowed to actually meet other people. I talk to people from the Greens ... I actually do talk to other people away from my own party."

Although he won't attend the Natio

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