June 11, 2026 — 9:01amOpposition Leader Angus Taylor says the Coalition has no plan to negotiate with One Nation to carve up seats amid reports some Liberal MPs want a deal so they can retain their seats at the next election.Liberal frontbencher Tony Pasin has urged his party to negotiate with Pauline Hanson so that Liberal and One Nation candidates do not cannibalise each other’s vote and have a better chance of ousting the Labor government.Opposition Leader Angus Taylor.Alex EllinghausenBut speaking to ABC News Breakfast on Thursday morning, Taylor insisted the Liberal Party would not be negotiating seats with Hanson.“There’s no plan to carve up seats. We won’t be doing that,” the Liberal leader said.“What we will be doing is focusing on a Labor government that’s taking this country in the wrong direction, with higher taxes, with less houses, with immigration that has not been in line with our supply, and with an energy system that is broken, and that will be our focus. It won’t be carving up seats.”Liberal Senator James Paterson said on Thursday he was not interested in hitching his party’s wagon to the One Nation brand.Paterson said his party had significant reservations about teaming up with One Nation so far out from an election, and that the priority for the Liberal Party should be earning back voter trust after its worst election defeat in history last year.“I am not interested in dividing the spoils with another political party two years out from the election, and frankly, hitching our wagon to their brand with all the risks that that entails between now and then,” Paterson told Radio National.“Who knows their policies? I think the Liberal Party needs to focus on earning back the trust and support of our traditional voters who were lost before we contemplate in arrangement with any other party.”He also said conversations about preferences were “premature”, and that he doubted One Nation’s ability to choose appropriate candidates after a track record of controversial selections.“Pauline Hanson has publicly said she is concerned about the fact that extremists have infiltrated her. Pauline Hanson is worried about it. I think all of us should be concerned about it.”More to comeCut through the noise of federal politics with news, views and expert analysis. Subscribers can sign up to our weekly Inside Politics newsletter.From our partners