"I will be standing tomorrow,'' he said.

Earlier, Mr Turnbull spent nearly an hour inside his Parliament House office with Joe Hockey, the man most expect to be the party's new leader after a meeting of Liberal MPs and senators tomorrow morning.

Mr Turnbull said Mr Hockey would support him by voting against a leadership spill.

"He would support me tomorrow in the spill,'' Mr Turnbull said Mr Hockey told him.

"He told me that he'd vote against a spill.''

But asked whether that meant Mr Hockey wouldn't run against him if there was a spill, the Opposition leader told reporters they would have to ask Mr Hockey.

Earlier he pleaded with the media to leave him and his family alone after he was chased down the corridors of Parliament House following a meeting with Joe Hockey.