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Rt. Hon Winston Peters
Leader NZ First
September 01 2011

“Labour Policy a Sound Echo”

“The Labour Party’s Youth Training and Employment policy announced today is soundly based” says Rt. Hon Winston Peters Leader of NZ First.

“I thought so when I first heard the policy details on a radio news broadcast and on further examination my thinking has not changed. That is because it is the same policy that NZ First has previously announced and re-emphasised at its Annual Convention in July2011”.

“They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but we live in the days of stricter copy right laws and the least we could have expected was an acknowledgement” said Mr. Peters.

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