New Zealand opposition MP who leaked details of Covid-19 patients steps down
by Charlotte Graham-McLay in Auckland from on (#55G3C)
Actions by Hamish Walker have dealt a blow to the National party weeks away from an election
An opposition MP in New Zealand has announced he will not stand at September's election after he confessed to leaking private details about all of the country's active Covid-19 cases to several news outlets.
The leak by Hamish Walker, a member of parliament for the centre-right National party, as well as the revelations that the personal information had in turn been provided to him by a former National party president, dealt a blow to an opposition trying to make a comeback in the polls ahead of September's election against the widely popular prime minister Jacinda Ardern.
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