Kate Hawkesby: Gaurav Sharma has stuck it right up the Govt by jumping ship

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Oct 18, 2022 · 2m

Guarva Sharma’s stuck it right up the Government by jumping ship before they could invoke the Waka Jumping Bill to push him off it. He was already sacked by caucus in August, but yesterday fired a new salvo – he quit as a party MP entirely.

He says because he found out that the party was going to invoke the Waka Jumping Bill six months before the election, thus avoiding a by-election, but he claims it would’ve left his electorate of Hamilton West without any representation, and that’s undemocratic. So he blindsided them and quit before they could forcibly remove him.

The PM, though, came out…