Wednesday, 20 November 2013 09:27

On the outer?

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THE HOUND wonders if Labour’s primary industries spokesman Damien O’Connor’s increasingly shrill digs at targets in the sector including Fonterra, Zespri, MPI and the TPP trade negotiations, to name a few, have more to do with internal frustrations than anything else.

It is understood O’Connor was close to former leader David Shearer, but not so with current boss David Cunliffe. Talk around the traps is that in any future Labour/Green coalition, Labour may offer the primary industries portfolio to the Greens as one of their cabinet positions, rather than give up labour or education which are closer to its base. 

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