Renegade Liberal MP Andrew Hastie has been accused today of going "on strike" in the federal election campaign by former Coalition leader Peter Dutton.

The stunning claim came in a review of the Liberal Party's disastrous election performance, The Sydney Morning Herald .

Dutton pulled no punches in his assessment of Hastie, who quit as Coalition home affairs spokesperson on the weekend.

"It was inconceivable to Dutton and his senior colleagues that Hastie effectively went on strike during the last term," a source familiar with Dutton's submissions, but was unauthorised to speak publicly, told the newspaper.

"Someone who should have been a powerful voice in the media tearing strips off Labor was absent, scared to do media, or lazy."

Dutton was interviewed by former party heav

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