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Kiri Allan to resign at election, apologises for letting public down

17:14 pm on 25 July 2023

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The troubled former Minister Kiri Allan has announced she will resign at the election, apologising for letting down the public, her party and the prime minister.

Ms Allan resigned all her ministerial portfolios yesterday and returned home to the East Coast, now facing criminal charges after a car crash on Sunday night.

It now leaves Labour scrambling to pick up the pieces as the election fast approaches.

Here's our deputy political editor Craig McCulloch.