Scoop has an Ethical Paywall
Hide Resigns ACT Leadership
Hide Resigns ACT Leadership
Rodney Hide has announced his plans to stand down as Act Party leader at a joint press conference with Don Brash.
Hide said he supported Brash's leadership.
Brash said he had been asked by the Act caucus to become leader, subject to confirmation of his membership of the party. This follows his announcement last week of plans to contest the leadership from outside Parliament. It has become clear that Brash has the numbers to succeed is a leadership vote were contested.
Hide is expected to stay on as an MP and does not plan to resign from any of his ministerial portfolios. Brash indicated support for former National MP and Auckland Major John Banks to run for Act in Hide's current seat of Epsom.
Act's support agreement with the current government will remain in place.
Scoop
Scoop Independent News
Scoop is NZ's largest independent news source; respected widely in media, political, business and academic circles for being the place on the internet for publishing "what was really said", and for the quality of its analysis of issues.
Eugene Doyle: Did The NZ Prime Minister Just Commit Treason?
Binoy Kampmark: Ted Turner - The Devil Behind Cable News
Keith Rankin: Clipping The Ticket; Solving Hormuz, In Context
Ian Powell: Inhumanity Of US Economic Sanctions Against Cuba – Infant Mortality And Starvation; Time To End NZ’s Silence
Ramzy Baroud: Subjects Of Empire - Breaking The Cycle Of Arab Dependency On US Elections
Peter Dunne: Dunne's Weekly - The Pragmatic Food For Fuel Deal With Singapore