Liberal party should forgo ‘entitled’ Kooyong voters, says their own state Liberal MP

Tim Smith says the Liberal party ‘was never about the top end of town’ and ‘will always be the party of John Howard’s battlers’. Photograph: David Caird/AAP

The voters of Kooyong in Melbourne’s east have been described as “loud, entitled and privileged” – by their own state Liberal MP.

Victorian Liberal Tim Smith represents the state electorate of Kew, which overlaps the federal seat of Kooyong, where independent Monique Ryan defeated former treasurer Josh Frydenberg in Saturday’s election.