24 Aug 2023

National MP censured and stripped of all portfolios

From Checkpoint, 5:31 pm on 24 August 2023

National MP Tim van de Molen will be censured by Parliament and has been stripped of his portfolios after it was found he acted in a threatening manner towards a Labour MP and select committee chair.

The incident was at the end of a hearing in late June, where he took issue with the number of questions Shanan Halbert was allowing for opposition members.

Here's our political editor, Jane Patterson.