13 Oct 2017

Coalition announcement up to a week away - Winston Peters

From Morning Report, 6:40 am on 13 October 2017

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has promised the country will know the makeup of the government before the end of next week. The party's MPs will go into a full-day meeting today to weigh up the final offers from both National and Labour after five days of negotiations. The board's due to join them at a still unknown later date, and will also need to sign off on any agreement. Mr Peters fielded questions from reporters at the conclusion of all the meetings last night.