Moira Deeming: suspended Victorian Liberal MP says she ‘never once’ considered suing party

Deeming previously said she would ‘commence legal proceedings’ unless leader John Pesutto met a deadline to declare she was not a Nazi sympathiser

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In the latest instalment of a saga engulfing the Victorian Liberal party, suspended MP Moira Deeming has put out a statement declaring that she “never once considered suing the Liberal party”.

That claim comes days after she emailed MPs saying she had advised her lawyers to prepare a legal challenge to her suspension.

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