7 Nov 2017

Rookie start for new government

From The Panel, 4:08 pm on 7 November 2017

Day one of the new parliament and Labour has fallen for a bluff by National. Will it have a lasting impact?

Labour was forced to do a last minute deal with national in order to get its chosen speaker, Trevor mallard elected to the position..

That's because national told the govt it didn't have the numbers in parliament at the time to do this...

Unfortunately for Labour - it didn't do its count, and so hurriedly made a deal with National - to allow 108 MPs on select committees.