PM Gives Short Pre-Caucus Presser – 23.05.06
Tuesday, 23 May 2006, 12:44 am
Article: Scoop Audio
PM Gives Short Pre-Caucus Presser –
23.05.06
A Scoop
reproduction of how a pre-caucus stand up may look to prime
ministerial eyes
*******Yesterday a flotilla of top brass
from the Labour Party, including the Prime Minister, visited
Turangawaewae Marae to honour the 40th anniversary of the
coronation of the Maori Queen.
Because of this regal
visit the Prime Minister did not have her regular Monday
afternoon post cabinet press conference. However on the way
to Labour's caucus this morning the PM gave assorted
members of the press her views on a number of recent
happenings including;
Communications Minister David
Cunliffe's current scrapes over comments he made to the
Bloomberg news agency regarding
Telecom.Transport Safety Minister Harry
Duynhoven's current illness (Labour MP Darren Hughes is the
go to man for Mr Duynhoven's latest condition evidently).
The recent front page lead story in the Sunday
Star-Times which claimed that a former prime ministerial
staffer undertsood a number of Labour MP's were going to be
forced into retirement. According to the PM the former
staffer worked for Mike Moore in 1990 - for two months – a
fact that seems to have been ommitted or subbed out from the
SST story. Listen to the entire pre-caucus
stand up
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