Will Turnbull still be PM at Christmas., page-201

It's all about winning the next election, Abbott got dumped because the majority of the Lib's lost hope at winning the election under Abbott.

Lib's would be very mindfull that a leadership spill would not go down well with voters and while lnp are just behind it the poll there would not be the feeling that there is little hope of turning it around and be in an election winning position