Afternoon edition: ‘I’ve had a gutf ul’: Speirs’ blistering farewell as he bo ws out

Email Opposition Leader David Speirs has quit the Liberals’ top job in SA, saying he “didn’t have the energy” to fight for the party’s leadership anymore.

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