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Luxon Calls for Nanaia Mahuta to be Sacked from Cabinet

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December 7, 2022

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National Party leader Christopher Luxon has called for Nanaia Mahuta to be sacked from Cabinet over Labour’s inclusion of a controversial entrenchment clause in Three Waters legislation.

“Isn’t it the case that Minister Mahuta has clearly breached the Cabinet manual, and when will the prime minister finally show some leadership, and sack her?” Luxon asked Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern during a terse session of Question Time in the House on Wednesday.

Luxon attacked Mahuta for her role in the entrenchment saga, after Labour attempted to draw a line under the matter by voting out the contentious clause it previously supported, calling it a “mistake”, a day earlier.

The clause in the Water Service Entities Bill, put forward by the Green Party and a source of concern for constitutional law experts, “entrenched” the public ownership of water assets by insisting any future law change require the support fo 60% of Parliament, or a public referendum.