Breaking: Victorian Liberal MPs have this morning voted to expel rebel MP Moira Deeming from the parliamentary party room.
The Western Metropolitan Region MP was widely expected to be expelled from the party room after she told the leadership team last week she intended to sue for defamation and launch legal proceedings to challenge her nine-month suspension.
The party room ended up reaching a compromise deal to suspend Deeming for nine months, but the first-term MP believed a key component of the agreement -- was not fulfilled. The opposition leader has denied that was ever part of the deal. Michael O’Brien, Jess Wilson, Georgie Crozier and David Southwick left a Higgins 200 Club Liberal Party breakfast fundraiser at 8.20am to make their way to the party room meeting, according to a source at the event.Former professional tennis player Sam Groth, who has long argued the Liberal Party needs to stop talking about itself, said before the vote he would listen to the respective arguments in the party room but that it was time to “start moving forward as a party”.
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