Liberals need to reconsider negative gearing and housing policies, outgoing Victorian MP Matt Bach says

‘One doesn’t want to piss people off needlessly, that’s not good politics. But we need to call a spade a spade’: outgoing Liberal MP Matt Bach on housing. Photograph: The Guardian

The Liberal party needs to reconsider negative gearing, reshape housing policies and to overhaul its process of selecting candidates if it wants to attract young voters, according to the newly resigned Victorian MP Matt Bach.

The 40-year-old, a moderate who shocked colleagues when he announced he was quitting state politics to move to the UK with his young family, says the Coalition has an opportunity to win over Millennials and Gen Z voters struggling to enter the housing market.