Negative gearing cuts: Turnbull was for it before he was against it

A leader saved from himself, left free to argue against what he actually thought wasn’t that bad:

Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison argued in cabinet to tighten negative gearing concessions but were later rolled in a key economic committee by ministerial supporters of Tony Abbott who wanted “clean hands’’ to attack Bill Shorten’s crackdown.

Labor will seize on the revelations — contained in a new book, The Turnbull Gamble by The Australian’s Peter van...