In her tempestuous four-year term, the upper house MP has resembled English cricketer Geoff Boycott: playing for herself and not the team.

The embattled MP will appear in court on Friday morning, hours before the party was due to decide whether she should remain a candidate for November’s state election.

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The Liberal Party has agreed not to disendorse Deeming until she has her final day in court, but their relationship is over.

Victorian MP Moira Deeming has temporarily won an eleventh-hour bid to remain as a Liberal candidate at this year’s state election.

Moira Deeming has told her Liberal colleagues she is trying to avoid the party’s “self-destruction” by challenging a push to revoke her candidacy for November’s election.

In her tempestuous four-year term, the upper house MP has resembled English cricketer Geoff Boycott: playing for herself and not the team.