Act Party co-founder Roger Douglas is sitting on the fence this election. Douglas was one of two founding members of the Act Party in 1993, alongside former National Party MP Derek Quigley, after being instrumental in Labour’s neoliberal reforms in the 1980s. But Douglas has become increasingly disillusioned with the Act Party, which he says has strayed from its original principals and now “represents only the wealthy”. National party leader Christopher Luxon said he wanted as big a party vote as feasible and he’d accept all-comers. “We’ll take Roger Douglas, and we’ll work hard to get as many New Zealanders as possible to party vote National,” he said.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 18, 2023 06:06 UTC