Angst is growing over Sussan Ley’s leadership of the Liberal Party following a fresh round of dire public polling, while a key Coalition critic of the now-dumped net zero policy urges internal rivals to take their time before moving against her.

Key Liberal party figures are also pushing back on claims fellow members of their moderate faction were moving towards conservative West Australian MP Andrew Hastie ahead of next week’s crucial final parliamentary sitting for the year.

It followed the Coalition formally presenting a unified stance on a reworked climate and energy policy on Sunday, that coincided with a new Redbridge/Accent Research survey confirming support for the opposition and its leader continuing to fall among voters.

According to the poll conducted for The Australian Finan

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