Ex-PM backs in embattled candidate

News.com.au - 15/04
Former prime minister John Howard has publicly backed beleaguered Liberal candidate Scott Yung in his race for the must-win Sydney electorate of Bennelong.

Former prime minister John Howard has publicly backed beleaguered Liberal candidate Scott Yung in his race for the must-win Sydney electorate of Bennelong.

The north west Sydney seat is currently held by Labor’s Jerome Laxale, however following a change in boundaries it sits on a wafer-thin Liberal margin of 0.04 per cent.

The 85-year-old Liberal luminary, who was the MP for more than three decades from 1974 to 2007, called on his former constituents to vote for Mr Yung, stating that he had “known (Mr Yung) for a number of years,” and described the local small business own...
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