Tony Abbott backs One Nation preference deal and says Liberals can’t just be a ‘little less woke than Labor’

The new Liberal president, Tony Abbott , has backed preference deals with One Nation as he declared the party wouldn’t win the next election by being “slaves to focus groups” and just a “little less woke than Labor”. The opposition leader, Angus Taylor, all but confirmed he was open to such deals with Pauline Hanson , declaring the party was prepared to cooperate with “whoever we can to get rid of this rotten Labor government’”. …