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Australia<\/a>\u2019s main opposition party has ousted its leader Sussan Ley after only nine months and replaced her with a former McKinsey partner.<\/p>\n Angus Taylor pledged to return the Liberal Party to a conservative social and economic agenda to step up opposition to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who won a second term in a landslide<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n Taylor, who was elected on Friday in a leadership vote of MPs, known as a \u201cspill motion\u201d, said that the party was in \u201cthe worst position it has been\u201d since it was formed in 1944.<\/p>\n He added that he recognised that part of the party\u2019s base of support was \u201cangry\u201d that it had adopted \u201cthe politics of convenience\u201d in recent years. \u201cThis ends today,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The son of a sheep farmer, Taylor has been seen as a potential Liberal leader since he was elected to parliament in 2013. <\/p>\n Taylor, 59, previously worked at McKinsey as a consultant. He was made partner five years after he joined due to his work in the New Zealand dairy industry, where he was credited with brokering the creation of the Fonterra dairy co-operative, which became the country\u2019s largest company. <\/p>\n He was a minister under the last Liberal prime minister Scott Morrison and later shadow Treasurer while in opposition to Albanese\u2019s Labor government. <\/p>\n Taylor\u2019s coup represents a shift back to the right for the Liberal Party after Ley, a moderate<\/a>, won the leadership contest in the wake of Peter Dutton\u2019s disastrous election campaign last year.<\/p>\n During her tenure, the Liberals twice split from their long-standing coalition partner the rural National Party due to disagreements over policies. <\/p>\n