Malcolm Turnbull didn't write the headline for next month's GQ magazine, but.........

...he looks very happy posing on the front cover above the headline 'Primed Minister".

There's this on his politics (from his last encounter with GQ magazine):

GQ: Did you always have an interest in politics?

Malcolm Turnbull: I was a member of the Liberal Party when I was at uni and then stopped when I became a full-time journo. I rejoined when I came back from Oxford and I ran in the Liberal pre-selection for [the Sydney seat of] Wentworth in ’81 and was narrowly defeated. I retained a political interest — although interest in running got pushed aside, I suppose, by my business life, my commercial life and obviously a family. I started thinking about it again after I left Goldman Sachs in 2001.

GQ: Why did you lean to the Libs? 

Malcolm Turnbull: Good question. I guess I’ve always been more focused on the freedom of the individual. When you boil it down to your gut political philosophy — and all political parties will frustrate and disappoint from time to time — I wouldn’t say I’m a libertarian, I’m not one of those people, I’m not an anarchist who believes there should be no government. But I am intensely skeptical of a government’s ability to solve people’s problems. I am a firm believer that you have to enable people; we should enable people to do their best rather than tell them what is best — that’s really the core difference I think.

There’s a thousand reasons for not being in the Labor party, least of which is the party has become a ghastly kind of club. The Liberal party for all of its failings, real or imagined, at least is a grassroots political organisation. The Labor party… the decisions are taken at the centre, it’s almost like a Leninist party in the sense command is strictly managed from the centre.

Mr Turnbull has spoken very frankly about some of his cabinet colleagues, including this about Andrew Robb, 

GQ: Did you shed any tears?  

Malcolm Turnbull: No, I didn’t cry — I thought I’d just get out of politics. I was overwhelmed by so many people who were anxious for me to stay and that buoyed me. And I’m glad I resolved to stay. I’m a much wiser and stronger person for it but I tell you, those political setbacks destroy a lot of people, they become riven by bitterness, hatred, negativity and it eats away at them. That’s not been the case for me, I don’t hate or resent or feel bitter towards any of the people — not Tony Abbott or any of the people instrumental in me losing the leadership. And there were people who acted with extraordinary treachery. Take Andrew Robb — he boasts of ambushing me deliberately. But I have a good working relationship with Andrew. I don’t hold it against him. 

One thing's for sure, the new article will be very well received by the anti-Abbott campaigners.