Tony Smith

OK, so that was a pretty lame excuse to run a picture of Tony Danza.

But as the small puff of dust settles over Sunday’s vaguely comical yarn suggesting that a “Two Tonys” ticket - comprising Sydney’s Tony Abbott as leader and Melbourne’s Tony Smith as deputy - is steeling itself to seize control of the Liberal Party, a broader and scarier question remains for Malcolm Turnbull.

Namely that his leadership may now be regarded as so tenuous that, especially over the coming fallow winter months when the jaded MPs among his number have more time on their hands, he may find himself drifting into that vortex of incessant, once-every-three-days leadership speculation, which eventually makes his own job totally impossible.

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