Labor’s decision to be so vocally critical of Basil Zempilas has been mystifying to Perth Today host Simon Beaumont.

However, new polling suggests the Labor Party believes Zempilas’s campaign to become the Liberal member for Churchlands is actually a liability to the Liberal Party.

Tom Rabe, Australian Financial Review, explained to Simon that the Liberals may have overestimated Basil’s popularity among voters and Labor is using this to their advantage.

“Labor are convinced that the Libs are miscalculating Basil’s upside, and inversely, there are some people in the Liberal Party who think Labor have completely miscalculated this and Basil’s going to prove extremely popular and a really massive asset to the party,” he said.

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