Henare vs Labour

Stuff reports:

Labour’s Tāmaki Makaurau candidate stands by saying he’d repeal the gang patch law at an event on Wednesday night, despite the party’s deputy leader insisting he was “mistaken”.

Peeni Henare told RNZ he was asked his personal view on the issue, which was informed by his whānau experience, and understood that differed from his party’s view.

Henare is a senior Labour MP and is openly saying his party has the wrong policy.

So the official position of Labour seems to be they voted against the gang patch law, their MPs think it is a bad law that should be repealed, but their leader knows that would be unpopular so their policy is not to repeal it until they do coalition negotiations with the Greens who will demand it be repealed and Te Pati Maori who will probably want gang patches made mandatory!