It’s been the silver lining in the dismal polling the Coalition has copped in the past five months: voters still seemed to like Opposition Leader Sussan Ley.

Not any more.

Ley’s performance rating has crashed in the latest Resolve Political Monitor with a brutal 14 percentage point fall in voters’ assessment of her performance, from plus 9 to minus 5, in just one month.

Leader of the Opposition Sussan Ley walking through the press gallery on October 9. Credit: Dominic Lorrimer

The slump in Ley’s personal performance rating is so pronounced that it is almost good news that the two-party preferred vote has remained unchanged at 45-55 – which would deliver another triumphant election win to Labor if repeated on polling day – and that, somehow, the Coalition’s primary vote crept up 1 percentage point to 28 per cent.

Anthony Albanese, on his first week off since the May election, will enjoy his holiday.

The findings follow a month in which Ley was forced to sack Jacinta Nampijinpa Price from the shadow ministry for disloyalty and for offensive comments to the Indian-Australian community, followed by leaks, public........

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