Is anyone feeling sorry for the Prime Minister? Here, confronted once more by an errant minister, he has had to use his disciplinary powers, but not to the satisfaction of Opposition parties.
Michael Wood may have been one of the more effective ministers in the current administration, though that is disputed by both National and ACT.
Certainly the failure to dispose of his holding of Auckland Airport shares while he held the Transport portfolio, though told to do so not once but six times, aroused a measure of doubt about his competency, even more so when it was subsequently revealed by the NZ Herald that he declined North Shore Aerodrome’s application for airport authority status while he owned shares in Auckland Airport, a potential competitor.
Some commentators dismiss the Wood offence as just another “bit of creeping incompetence” that Hipkins has had to deal with since he took over as…
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