Muller quits as National leader

Muller quits as National leader
Gavin Evans
Todd Muller has resigned as leader of the National Party citing the pressures the role has placed on his health and family. Muller, elected by the Opposition caucus only seven weeks ago, is quitting less than a week after the leaking of private details of covid-19 patients cost Clutha-Southland MP Hamish Walker and former National Party president Michelle Boag their jobs. After an initial slow response as events unfolded last week, Muller was then shown to have known that National’s health spokesman Michael Woodhouse had also received the...

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