Paul Sakkal at the SMH had a story about Andrew Hastie, Angus Taylor and other conservatives meeting at a Canberra restaurant on Monday night, where Ley’s future was on the menu.

Sakkal reports it is not settled yet when the challenge will occur (which is also what I am hearing – mostly because it is not in the interests of Taylor to launch a challenge when there is still so much left undecided and so much weight being thrown around) and Ley is asked if she is worred:

Ley:

Not at all. It’s totally unremarkable for colleagues to get together and have meals. And I speak to those colleagues and indeed all of my colleagues almost every single day that I’m here in Parliament. People can make what amusing asides they want on photos that are, as I said, completely unremarkable.