21 Feb 2023

Maureen Pugh's climate change denial gone by lunchtime

From Checkpoint, 5:39 pm on 21 February 2023

An own goal for National today, with MP Maureen Pugh plunging her party into a controversy over climate change.

She began the day telling reporters she was still waiting to see evidence of whether humans contributed to climate change.

But that stance was gone by lunchtime - after a chat with her boss.

Here's our political editor, Jane Patterson.