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Opposition calling for Stuart Nash sacking

08:15 am on 17 March 2023

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The opposition is braying for Stuart Nash to lose his remaining ministerial warrants. 

He's resigned from the police portfolio - after criticising the courts and asking the Police Commissioner if he would appeal in a case Nash wasn't happy with. 

Those breached restraints on executive over-reach to prevent political interference in justice and policing. 

On Thursday it was revealed he'd had form, breaching cabinet rules in a 2020 interview with Newstalk ZB, discussing the arrest of Eli Epiha for the murder of constable Matthew Hunt.

The Solicitor-General considered prosecuting him for publicly expressing his view on how the Courts should sentence someone, but the Attorney-General delivered the rebuke, verbally, instead.  

National Party's police spokesperson Mark Mitchell spoke to Jane Patterson.