11 Sep 2015

Labour Party general secretary steps down

11:41 am on 11 September 2015

Labour Party general secretary Tim Barnett is stepping down, after just over three years in the role.

Mr Barnett will take up a new job in November.

Labour president Nigel Haworth said Mr Barnett had overseen Labour's Christchurch East, Ikaroa-Rawhiti and Northland by-election campaigns, as well as the 2014 election, and he left the party in good heart.