Andrew Hastie has stunned colleagues and quit the Liberal frontbench on Friday after staking out his own nationalist agenda on migration, manufacturing and net zero.

Hastie, who had been the opposition’s home affairs spokesman, phoned Opposition Leader Sussan Ley to inform her on Friday. Sources said the Western Australian told her he could no longer maintain shadow cabinet solidarity.

Andrew Hastie quit as the Coalition’s home affairs spokesman on Friday. Credit: Alex Ellinghausen

On Instagram, Hastie claimed he had been sidelined from developing the Coalition’s policy on immigration, which this masthead’s Resolve Political Monitor has found half of voters say is too high, far more than those who believe it is at the correct level.

“The leader has made it clear that the shadow h

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