The warring New South Wales Liberal factions have taken time out from actively trying to solve their preselection woes to try to lower the temperature in the fractured party following the leaking of text messages critical of the prime minister.
With Scott Morrison’s threat of a federal intervention now public, the factions are expected to regroup over the weekend ahead of a last-ditch attempt to finalise who will be endorsed in eight winnable federal lower house seats and the third Senate spot.
