‘The problem with Angus is that he does not actually do anything,’ one colleague says of the former minister with a glossy CV
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Even before he entered federal parliament in 2013, Angus Taylor was touted as a future leader of the Liberal party, and a future prime minister.
“Smart, rich and handsome,” one headline dubbed the incoming member for Hume. A Rhodes scholar, management consultant and scion of one of the New South Wales Monaro region’s founding families, Taylor was described as having a CV almost “too good to be true”. One enthusiastic journalist even suggested he had “the looks and the charm of a young Kennedy”.