24 Mar 2021

National calls on PM to back no confidence vote on Mallard

From Checkpoint, 5:31 pm on 24 March 2021

The National Party has taken aim at the Speaker Trevor Mallard again, labelling him a bully who is unfit to be in his job.

It's revealed details of a statement of claim in the defamation case of the man Mallard wrongly accused of being a rapist.

National is calling on the Prime Minister to support a vote on no confidence in Mallard, but Jacinda Ardern is backing him.

Political reporter Yvette McCullough has more.