16 Aug 2023

Willie Jackson forced to apologise in Parliament

From Morning Report, 6:42 am on 16 August 2023

It's been a rowdy start to the last sitting block of this Parliamentary term.

MPs are back in Wellington for the next three weeks before the House rises for the election campaign.

Associate Housing Minister Willie Jackson had to apologise for repeated criticisms of National MP Chris Bishop.

Jackson had come to the defence of his colleague Deborah Russell, after it emerged she once opposed Labour's move to remove interest deductibility from rental properties.