WA Federal Liberals will this week tell leader Sussan Ley they want net zero dumped, but her embattled leadership is set to continue — for now.

Senators Michaelia Cash and Matt O’Sullivan and lower house MP Ben Small on Saturday called for net zero to be scrapped, with Andrew Hastie, Rick Wilson and Slade Brockman also expected to call for the policy to be dumped at Wednesday’s party room meeting.

Ms Ley’s main political supporter in WA, Durack MP Melissa Price, has also called for changes to the policy, saying there needs to be a “reset” to make net zero more relevant to Australia.

Liberals say they believe in cutting emissions, but believe Australia is going too hard, too soon on renewables — driving up power prices.

“We need to withdraw the net zero target and back what works,” Sena

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