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The presence of two former Liberal leaders sitting on the backbench could have been handled one of two ways by Elizabeth Lee. Each option comes with possible risks and possible rewards. The new leader Lee could have elected to freeze out Alistair Coe and Jeremy Hanson, assigning them minor roles in the hope they’d bore themselves into political irrelevance and obscurity. Such a move would have ensured Lee was the centre of attention, a reasonable and rational objective for any new leader. But it would have also risked alienating Coe and Hanson, giving them cause to…
