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# Cunning Judith
- URL: https://goodoil.news/cunning-judith/
- Published: 2020-07-27T20:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-17T17:00:00.000Z
- Author: Cam Slater
- Tags: Election 2020, Featured, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:00

Judith Collins has shown her cunning yet again.

And it is over [what the Prime Minister knew and when](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c%5Fid=1&objectid=12351277&ref=goodoil.news) about the **Iain Lees-Galloway** affair.

> She added that when she passed on the information to Prime Minister **Jacinda Ardern,** she did not know herself he was accused of an affair – but **she accused the PM of knowing prior to their conversation.**  
>  
> **“I didn’t know anything about it, I think she probably did.”**  
>  
> But when asked this afternoon if she thought Ardern had lied, she said: “No I’m saying that I did not know. I simply said to her that I’ve had a message from someone, an email, saying that they had some information that is even worse than what has come out about our then-MP and I passed it to her and **she asked me who it was about and I said, ‘Iain Lees-Galloway’.**  
>  
> **“I did not have the detail and I said I didn’t want to receive the detail and I asked them to contact her office.**  
>  
> **“And when I said ‘It’s Iain Lees-Galloway’, she said ‘Oh yes, right’.”**  
>  
> When asked if the implication was that Ardern had “joined the dots because she already knew about the affair”, Collins said: “I didn’t know about the affair and I’m not interested in all the grubby details. It’s not my business. **She needs to front up with what she meant by ‘an abuse of office’ and frankly that’s for her to answer. I’m not her minder and if I was, she would be much better at her job.”**

Zing! An accusation that demands answers and a sledge at the end.

Boom.

Now Ardern will be on the back foot again over her knowledge of Lees-Galloway and his inappropriate relationship.

One wonders how she will cope when she is asked about *La Cucaracha* as the minister is becoming known as…

Labour types are very nervous; they know people and the media know too, it is only a matter of time.

Labour’s leadership is going to have to do something.

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