Kate Hawkesby: Labour caucus meeting behind Sharma's back is downright mean

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Aug 16, 2022 · 2m

I can’t work out if this Sharma stuff is something voters care about or not.

It’s a lot of he said / she said.

It’s a lot of claim and counter claim – it’s something we may never really get to the bottom of given Labour ruled out an independent investigation.

That in and of itself may tell us something actually. The way it’s been handled by the party – a clearly furious Ardern and Robertson, shows that for all the talk of kindness and kumbaya, they couldn’t have been less kind in the way they’ve dealt with all this.

So Sharma’s been suspended, which really solves nothing.

On top of that, and…