Rt. Hon Winston Peters In Conversation

The Rt Honourable Winston Peters has been a New Zealand Member of Parliament – with two gaps – since 1978 and he is still the forceful, critical and – most will agree – creative Leader of The New Zealand First Party . Though he started as a National Party member he might have gone with Labour. He makes strong criticisms of many aspects of the way that New Zeaand is governed. And he gave me a SuperGold Card ....

"In Conversation with Noel Cheer", Face Television, Monday July 29th at 7:00pm, repeated on Tuesday July 30th at 12 noon.

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