Just when it had the National Party on the ropes over the Todd Barclay debacle, it jumps into the ring to self-flagellate. It involves 85 foreign students being brought into the country by Labour to campaign for it in the run-up to the election. Yeah well that doesn't gel with the ads inviting the students to come here that were placed on foreign university websites. His political opponents were rubbing their hands with glee. True, even Labour's Stuart Nash, old enough to be the MP's father, was wrongly identified as the beleaguered Barclay.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 22, 2017 17:02 UTC