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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1333/
- Published: 2025-11-07T17:30:06.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-07T17:30:05.000Z
- Description: Hague entered parliament as a list MP in 2008. Despite being considered a frontrunner for the party’s co-leadership in 2015, he was beaten by James Shaw. He is now returning as chief of staff.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> Former Green MP Kevin Hague is returning to politics to be the party’s new chief of staff.  
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> In a social media post on Thursday, Hague said he was coming “out of retirement” to take up the role after [Eliza Prestidge-Oldfield stepped down](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/573772/green-party-chief-of-staff-eliza-prestidge-oldfield-resigns?ref=goodoil.news).  
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> Hague said his home would remain on the West Coast, but he would also be setting up a “second base” in the capital.  
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> “Got any furniture you want to sell? I will pick up the reins in a couple of weeks.”  
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> Hague entered parliament as a list MP in 2008\. Despite being considered a frontrunner for the party’s co-leadership in 2015, he was beaten by James Shaw.  
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> Hague left a year later to become the chief executive of environmental organisation Forest and Bird.  
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> The party has not had a permanent chief of staff since September when Prestidge-Oldfield resigned.  
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> RNZ

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