Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has laid down the law to her frontbenchers, imposing key performance indicators to overcome the policy failures that plagued Peter Dutton’s election campaign.

Under pressure to maintain internal discipline, Ley has fired off what are known as charter letters to shadow ministers outlining minimum standards and priority policy areas.

Ley’s office wrote to frontbenchers on Tuesday to inform them about a letter that “will be in your boss’s inbox”, according to an email obtained by this masthead sent a day after she was peppered with questions about whether her leadership was under threat from MP Andrew Hastie .

“They set out policy priorities and key performance indicators, encompassing both the leader’s direction as well as areas where shadow ministers wish t

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