Sussan Ley just outlasted the Liberal party’s shortest serving leader. But will she survive another milestone?

A leadership challenge could be likely if Ley’s conservative rivals, Angus Taylor and Andrew Hastie, agree on who should be the candidate

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Sussan Ley passed a milestone this week.

While locked in a string of party room meetings and tense negotiations with Anthony Albanese over Labor’s hate speech bill, she surpassed eight months and eight days as her party’s leader.