How to turn a majority into a minority or lose a war?, page-11

I am surprised to read that the 3 Liberal MPs who left early were ministers, not back benchers.

'Embarrassed, humiliated, excoriated': Angry Malcolm Turnbull slams ministers

from the above article:

"Two of them were cabinet ministers and one of them was a minister. They're grown ups, they're experienced parliamentarians. They knew that they should not have left and they left early because they thought they'd get away with it," he said.