Two sex scandals in one week: New Zealand faces reckoning over MPs' behaviour

Dramatic exit of an MP and a minister might signal a new attitude in a nation where politicians' private lives have traditionally been off-limits

After a New Zealand MP quit and a minister was fired in successive days over allegations of sexual misconduct or inappropriate relationships, New Zealand's prime minister was asked by a reporter if it was open season" on any member of parliament who had ever had an affair".

I don't want to get drawn into hypotheticals," said Ardern, while announcing she had sacked Iain Lees-Galloway, her minister of workplace relations and safety, over his workplace relationship with a former staffer in his office who had also worked in an agency he oversaw.