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Then in another move dubbed 'Sroubek 2. PM Jacinda Ardern has dismissed Iain Lees-Galloway from his immigration and workplace relations roles for an inappropriate relationship with a former staffer.

Iain Lees-Galloway has been sacked from Cabinet and will not stand again at the election following revelations of a relationship with a former staffer. National leader Judith Collins claims she has received an allegation about a Labour Party MP but will not say what it is.

New Zealand's temporary workers have been given some breathing space to plan their next move, but it is a different story for those migrants stuck overseas. Organisations representing a cross section of New Zealand industries are alarmed that no decision has been made on the fate of thousands of temporary workers with visas about to expire.

Politics RSS. Follow RNZ News. Lees-Galloway sacking: Ardern says relationship showed 'lack of judgement' 22 Jul Visa extension will only benefit some - immigration adviser 8 Jul Lees-Galloway, 43, had told Ardern it was a consensual relationship that had ended several months ago.

Ardern said she had lost confidence in Lees-Galloway as he had improperly used his position of power. The Prime Minister did not want to identify the woman involved, but added that she wasn't an intern.

She drew a distinction between moral judgments and judgments about the proper conduct of a minister, in this case the Minister for Workplace Relations. Whether Lees-Galloway had other affairs was immaterial, she said, given that this single affair was enough to sack him from Cabinet. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said ministers having affairs was not necessarily inappropriate behaviour, and it depended on each individual circumstance.

But Lees-Galloway's position was untenable because he was the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety, and he had opened himself up to accusations of improperly using his power. Ardern said yesterday that Parliament had not been meeting the expectation of the public in recent days. It now fell to MPs on both sides of the political spectrum to "restore people's faith in our system". Meanwhile, NZ First leader and deputy prime minister Winston Peters is capping off a dramatic week in New Zealand politics by saying he will save the Tiwai Pt aluminium smelter.

He will be in Southland today. He says it will not involve government money. National Party leader Judith Collins also issued a call for a clean-up, saying New Zealanders were "clearly sick of people like Andrew Falloon". On Thursday, Collins revealed a fifth woman had now alerted her to inappropriate messages from Falloon. Yesterday, police also confirmed they had re-opened the investigation into Falloon's actions.

The number of women who say they have received these types of messages from the disgraced MP was now "at least" five, says Collins. Police had previously investigated a complaint about the sending of the first unsolicited image, but it wasn't found to meet the threshold for prosecution.