Peter Dutton accepts responsibility for historic Aston loss but insists he should stay on as leader

Liberal candidate for Aston, Roshena Campbell (left), with federal opposition leader Peter Dutton in Melbourne on Saturday. After losing the byelection, Dutton said on Sunday, ‘we’ve failed that test that has been set for us by the Victorian people’. Photograph: Julian Smith/AAP

Peter Dutton has accepted responsibility for the party’s historic loss in the Aston byelection, but says he has no plans to step down as leader of the Liberal party.

Last month Dutton told ABC radio he was happy for the byelection to be a “verdict” on himself and Anthony Albanese, as well as the campaigns both parties were running.