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Angus Taylor claims Coalition governments, including one in which he was a senior minister, “lost trust” with the electorate through the Covid pandemic, saying they “allowed big government to become accepted”.
The opposition leader also says he’d never “attack” One Nation voters, claiming his focus is on fighting Labor.
Taylor was on 2GB this morning, saying the voting public was “angry” about politics and the economy, including standards of living and taxes. He admitted the Liberal Party had to rebuild trust among voters, but that while the Coalition’s vote was previously “in free fall”, Taylor claimed now “the Coalition is solid as a rock” – despite its primary vote falling to just 17% in one poll published today.
“It’s going to take time because people need to rebuild trust in their Coalition, in a Liberal party, in a National party that has breached trust,” Taylor claimed.
In an interview with The Australian over the weekend, Taylor claimed the pandemic was one of the times the Coalition and Australian governments breached trust with voters.
double quotation markWe allowed big government to become accepted, and we don’t believe in big government. Australians felt that government got too big, too heavy, too close to their daily lives.
We needed to come out of Covid with a strong plan to pare back on both spending and the role of government in people’s lives.
I think that is, widely accepted on our side of politics now. But that did breach trust and we’ve got to rebuild that trust and rebuilding trust takes time.