Photo: Getty ImagesA parliamentary select committee meeting collapsed this morning with Labour and National MPs blaming each other for the mess and wasting submitters’ time. But that shouldn’t have mattered, he said, because National MPs could have just come back inside the room. “We had four National members standing outside who could have come in and allowed the meeting to proceed,” Wood said. Committee MPs then clashed on Twitter. National MP Andrew Falloon said it was a “shambles”, while Labour's Kieran McAnulty said National MPs were being “pathetic”.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 13, 2019 00:30 UTC