Capital Letter: ‘Loyal to what?’: the role of parliamentary opposition
The Leader of the Opposition has a constitutional role to call government to account.
Thu, 11 May 2017
Labour Party leader Andrew Little’s recent High Court victory, finding his commentary on aspects of a Niue holiday resort’s financing to be qualifiedly privileged from defamation liability, casts light into the shadows of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition’s constitutional role.