4 Sep 2018

Peters throws Ardern curve ball on refugee quota

From Morning Report, 6:40 am on 4 September 2018

The New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has thrown a major spanner into the works of Labour's plan to double the refugee quota, saying his party never agreed to that. Labour campaigned on raising the refugee quota to 1500 per year and has consistently said it would do this within its first term. But Mr Peters who is on Nauru, home to nine hundred refugees, for the Pacific Islands Forum, says his party never agreed to that. Here's our Deputy Political Editor, Chris Bramwell.