Former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce has flagged he could run as a One Nation candidate in his current lower house seat of New England at the next election rather than on the party’s Senate ticket as has been expected.
Joyce said last year that he would not recontest New England but appears to be softening that view given One Nation’s surge in the polls.
“If it looks … like we’re going to get a large, a reasonable number of House of Representatives seats, then of course, the party, which I’m a part of, will no doubt make the request that I stand for New England, because we have to have some oversight and some process to make sure we look like a professional, diligent outfit in the House of Representatives,” Joyce told Sky News on Sunday.
“Because otherwise you’re just going to have a range of people who have never been there before. And it’s not their fault, it’s just that’s a tenuous approach.
“If that is not the case, then we continue with Plan A, which is – stand for the Senate.”
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