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Barry Soper: Does Phil Twyford have a point about accountability for MBIE?

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Publish Date
Tue, 1 Sep 2026, 5:17pm
MBIE chief executive Nic Blakeley has fronted the immigration scandal. Photo / Mark Mitchell
MBIE chief executive Nic Blakeley has fronted the immigration scandal. Photo / Mark Mitchell

Labour says MBIE's chief executive should lose his job after revelations he misled a Parliament committee.

Officials, including CEO Nic Blakely, suggested at a hearing this year a biometrics upgrade project was continuing after it had been scrapped.

A Privileges Committee report's labelled that misleading - and Blakely's offer to resign was declined.

Labour's Phil Twyford says accountability's needed.

Newstalk ZB senior political correspondent Barry Soper says Twyford has a point about this - given that the public needs to trust politicians.  

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