And just like the rumble in the jungle, only one of them would triumph. Emily Brooks and Elizabeth Scott sat a metre apart in a corner of the Opposition leader’s office, a plunger of coffee and a tray of biscuits untouched between them. They were hardly friends at the best of times, but this afternoon, in an empty Parliament, the hatred was electric. ‘I think you will agree it’s time for a change of tactics, Liz.’ Brooks found it difficult to maintain a façade of respect when she spoke with her leader. She despised Scott’s soft-Left world view and saw it as a cancer on the party. (The only thing she hated more than Scott was the Welcome to Country. That politically correct nod to indigenous history that Catriona Bailey had foisted on Parliament.) ‘How so?’ Scott, typically, disagreed with Brooks. ‘We went within one seat of winning an election against a first-term government. That’s the first time that has happened in eighty years. Now the government is in disarray and we are well-placed.’ ‘True, but that was all their doing, not yours, Liz.
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