Alan Jones contacted MPs to urge change

Controversial radio host Alan Jones has opened up about his role in last week’s Liberal leadership spill, saying he contacted MPs to say the party had to change direction.

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“I contacted certain MPs, yes, and encouraged them to recognise that if they wanted to go, Australia wanted to go the same way, there had to be change,” he told the ABC TV’s 7.30 program on Monday.

“I didn’t turn against Turnbull, but I turned against the (energy) policy,” he said.

Mr Jones says he supported Mr Turnbull at the last federal election, but the “writing was on the wall” for the…

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