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Why a phone call cost Stuart Nash his job as Police Minister

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Chris Hippkins Signals the End of the Politics of Kindness

Hippkins is making an example out of Nash. I think it's a clear message to the rest of his MPs and ministers. It's staying in your lane. We've got an election to win because he'll be very cognizant on that. He would have seen the fact that with the David Clark example, Ardern dragged her heels on it for too long. And she cut him the day that became news. She did move, but there are a fair few examples of her not moving quick enough. That sort of story spiral out of control and putting labor on the back foot.

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