Prime Minister Chris Hipkins is rejecting claims Labour\u2019s re-election hopes are in tatters after yesterday losing his fourth minister for misbehaving in less than four months.<\/p>\n
A dejected Hipkins fronted media in the morning after\u00a0Kiri Allan<\/a>\u00a0crashed her car at 9pm on Sunday and was\u00a0charged by police with careless use of a motor vehicle and failure to accompany a police officer<\/a>. Allan was issued an infringement notice for having excess breath alcohol.<\/p>\n Allan subsequently resigned her ministerial warrants and is now taking time off with wh\u0101nau at home in Gisborne.<\/p>\n Only a few hours later Hipkins returned to face media again, having to announce\u00a0his fourth reshuffle\u00a0<\/a>of portfolios after losing four ministers since becoming Prime Minister in January – including\u00a0Stuart Nash<\/a>,\u00a0Meka Whaitiri<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Michael Wood<\/a>. Adding former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern makes five ministers to leave the Government this year.<\/p>\n SOURCE NZ HERALD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prime Minister Chris Hipkins is rejecting claims Labour\u2019s re-election hopes are in tatters after yesterday losing his fourth minister for misbehaving in less than four months. A dejected Hipkins fronted media in the morning after\u00a0Kiri Allan\u00a0crashed her car at 9pm on Sunday and was\u00a0charged by police with careless use of a motor vehicle and failure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6719,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6718\/revisions\/6719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}