paul kelly spoke to political editor Tom McIlroy About his new book on the Liberal Party’s turbulent era under Prime Ministers Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison.
In The Twilight of Exceptionalism, Kelly writes about how the Liberal leadership changed from a conservative to a progressive and then to a transactional centrist. The editor of The Australian argues extensively that this period demonstrated that the party was fractured over its values and confused about its identity in a changing world.
