Larry Williams Drive

National might be on to something here.  Chris Luxon, just in the last couple of hours, has called on the Prime Minster to sack Nanaia Mahuta for openly defying the Prime Minster. So what’s happened is that a document has emerged that shows that Cabinet collectively agreed back on 30 May this year not to do the Three Waters entrenchment. But then, as we know, Nanania and the Greens stitched up a little deal where they did it anyway. Just at 60 percent not 75 percent. And as we know, this caught a lot of senior Labour Cabinet Ministers by surprise. The Prime Minister didn’t know the entrenchment had passed until afterwards. Neither did Chris Hipkins who is the Leader of the House, and neither did David Parker who is the Attorney General and who advised against it. So it’s starting to look like there is a chance. Nanaia Mahuta just went ahead and did what she wanted anyway in defiance of Cabinet. Now that would be, the Nats argue, in breach of the Cabinet Manual by acting against the instructions of Cabinet. An