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The Liberal party is capable of winning a federal election without its junior coalition partner, Senator Anne Ruston says.

Speaking to Sky News on Sunday morning, Ruston described herself as a “coalitionist” but said that “history” showed it was possible for the Liberal Party to go it alone if it had to.

I think you’ve only got to look at history.

It’s happened before, Andrew, and I think the one thing that we’ve learnt in politics is that you never say never, things change very, very quickly.

I think Sussan has been doing an amazing job of being leader in the toughest time I can remember in parliament. I don’t think it’s particularly unusual that there are always great challenges at this time.

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Source: www.theguardian.com

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