A New Zealand Green Party MP has been forced to back down from a claim that Prime Minister Christopher Luxon had told a “demonstrable lie” to parliament when he said that the Coalition government was “not weakening our actions on climate change, we’re just going about it a different way.”
Calling an MP a liar in parliament is against Standing Orders—the rules that govern MPs’ behaviour—and a refusal to “withdraw and apologise” could have seen the third-term MP Chloe Swarbrick referred to the Privileges Committee.
