The Josh Frydenberg book-promotion/comeback-to-politics tour continues.
The former treasurer, and ousted member for Kooyong, appeared on 7:30 last night, again raising the possibility of his return to frontline politics.
His memoir, A Grateful Son, is the Trojan Horse that legitimises questions like: “Do you think you’d make a good prime minister?”
“Look, I haven’t closed the door to reentering politics,” Frydenberg reiterated. “That would involve running for a seat, winning it, joining the party room and then proceeding after that. So there are a lot of steps.”
He told host Sarah Ferguson that “if I was to run, it would be at the next election”, but insisted “it’s not a decision that I have taken”.
Full marks for persistence, Ferguson tried again: “Do you have what it takes to lead the country?”
Frydenberg: “Look, I think it’s important to know what you believe in, and I certainly do, to have policy ideas that can take the country in the right direction, and to be consistent with the philosophy and the values of our great party, and that’s what I articulate in the book.”
