Barnaby Joyce 'Put up or shut up': Nationals at war over Barnaby Joyce's future As deputy PM sandbags against insurgency, MP says party delegation will visit leader Barnaby Joyce is fighting to keep his grip on the National party leadership. But a fellow Queenslander, David Littleproud, has dared the deputy prime minister’s critics to put up or shut up. Notably, the party’s deputy leader, Bridget McKenzie, has made no public defence of Joyce since news broke of his personal travails. The former Nationals leader Warren Truss said parliamentary colleagues needed to resolve the issue “constructively and quickly”. He said the deputy prime minister had been “diminished” by rolling controversy over his private life.

Source: The Guardian February 13, 2018 23:03 UTC