Nationals leader David Littleproud’s position is under threat, with New England MP Barnaby Joyce moving to replace him after a chaotic week in Canberra where the Coalition agreement with the Liberals was torn up.

7NEWS has spoken exclusively to Joyce who when asked about the need to change Nationals leader said: “Things have to be dealt with” and “let’s just get back to Canberra.”.

“Things have got to be dealt with, they’ve got to be dealt with in privacy, they’ve got to be dealt with succinctly and dealt with dignity,” Joyce said.

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“Let’s be honest it has been a shocker and we need to straighten things out.

“I think let’s just get back to Canberra.”

When asked about speculation he wants to install Riverina MP and former Deputy Prime Minister, Michael McCormack, Barnaby Joyce said: “ I am not going to start cutting and dicing, votes should be secret - not public.”

This development is now overshadowing the fact the Coalition could be back together soon.

The Liberal Party room met this afternoon in an online call and came to an in principle agreement to rejoin a Coalition with the Nationals. The parties now seemingly in agreement on four key policy points including lifting the ban on nuclear energy, supermarket divestiture laws, improving regional telecommunications, and a $20 billion regional future fund.

Nationals MP Michael McCormack is claiming he helped broker peace.

He’s a neighbouring MP of Sussan Ley and his former chief of staff now works for her.

“I did reach out to Sussan I did, because I thought it was important that we kept the Coalition in one piece,” McCormack said.

“I did a lot of work behind the scenes.”

Sussan and Ley and David Littleproud will now have to meet, and then the deal will be formalised with the parties hoping to sit in a joint party room for the first sitting week of the new parliament in July.