17 Oct 2022

Ardern responds to Winston Peters' attacks on Labour government

From Morning Report, 7:10 am on 17 October 2022

Jacinda Ardern's former deputy Prime Minister, Winston Peters, has unleashed a withering attack on the Labour Government in his closing address at the New Zealand First annual conference.

Peters said the Labour Party was pursuing "woke, virtue signalling madness", and a "separatist agenda".

He went on to say the government was scattering the "seeds of apartheid" through New Zealand's laws and institutions.

This after Peters' played Queen-maker in 2017, signing a coalition agreement with the Labour Party and forming a Government.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern spoke to Corin Dann.