\u201cThe remarks are deeply inappropriate and do not reflect our values or the standards of our business,\u201d they said. \u201cWe have initiated a formal review, and we will not be commenting further while that process is ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n
In an interview with The Platform host Sean Plunket, Nash was asked what a woman was, and gave the vulgar answer, using slang terms for genitalia, after prefacing his statement with \u201cthe last time I said this I got in trouble\u201d.<\/p>\n
Nash later called into the show, saying he had spoken to his wife, and said he wished he had not made the comment.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it is the truth, it is an accurate record of the interview,\u201d host Plunket said, and added he preferred the comment remain, noting Nash used to be a Cabinet minister.<\/p>\n
The Platform then posted to the social media site X, saying Nash had \u201clater asked for the comment to be removed\u201d, in a bleeped video of the initial exchange of words.<\/p>\n
In a statement to Newstalk ZB, Peters said \u201cthe words used weren\u2019t acceptable, and on that point, we agree with Mrs Nash, as does Stuart now he has reflected on them, and as he said so on The Platform\u201d.<\/p>\n
Peters said a woman was a \u201chuman adult female\u201d when asked.<\/p>\n
When asked on the tiles in Parliament yesterday afternoon, before releasing a statement, about the comments from Nash, Peters asked, \u201cWho said that?\u201d<\/p>\n
When Peters was informed Nash made these comments on The Platform, the NZ First leader responded: \u201cNo, I\u2019m going to find out whether he said that or not. I\u2019m not taking your word for it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Peters said he would not answer questions on the matter until he had seen the comments from Nash.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going back to my office, I\u2019ve got great staff \u2013 they\u2019ll tell me if it\u2019s true or not.\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked for comment on the matter, Nash said \u201cno comment\u201d, but later apologised on his LinkedIn.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was wrong and unacceptable, and I apologise unreservedly for any offence that this comment may have caused,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cWords matter, and I take full responsibility for my actions. I have immense respect for all women, and this is not who I am or what I believe, and I have let myself, my family and my friends down. I will work hard to rectify this.\u201d<\/p>\n
The former Labour MP, who was sacked as a minister over disclosing confidential information in 2023<\/a>, made an appearance at the NZ First convention over the weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n During a media stand-up at the conference, jointly hosted by Nash and Peters, the party leader suggested Nash could be a \u201cseamless\u201d addition to the party.<\/p>\n Nash told media that Labour leader Chris Hipkins, who sacked him from Cabinet, had \u201cstabbed him in the back\u201d.<\/p>\n Speaking to media on the backstabbing allegation, Hipkins said, \u201cStuart\u2019s free to rewrite history however he wants. He\u2019s an independent member of the public.\u201d<\/p>\n Hipkins\u2019 remarks came after Prime Minister Christopher Luxon suggested he could \u201cmake it work\u201d around a potential coalition deal that could include NZ First and Stuart Nash.<\/p>\n On Nash being sacked in the past, Luxon said, \u201cI\u2019m sure he\u2019s learned his lesson\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a person who\u2019s not even yet confirmed as a NZ First candidate. That\u2019s going to be a decision, obviously, for the party and for Winston Peters, so it\u2019s purely speculative and hypothetical,\u201d Luxon added on Monday.<\/p>\n On Tuesday morning, Hipkins told Ryan Bridge on Herald NOW that his party would set out what parties it could work with closer to the election \u2013 including areas in common and \u201cno-go zones\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of water still to flow under the bridge yet.\u201d<\/p>\n Azaria Howell is a multimedia reporter working from Parliament\u2019s press gallery. She joined NZME in 2022 and became a Newstalk ZB political reporter in late 2024, with a keen interest in public service agency reform and government spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe remarks are deeply inappropriate and do not reflect our values or the standards of our business,\u201d they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1443,11154,6727,5782,11773,13801,12765,16131,16132,2740,13800,42,16133,296,6721,1743,1362,6722,6724,13795,43,16134,762,6723,40,38,41,39,1316,1354,2248],"class_list":["post-13761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-about","tag-begins","tag-cabinet","tag-comments","tag-deeply","tag-definition","tag-employer","tag-exmp","tag-formal","tag-former","tag-giving","tag-headlines","tag-inappropriate","tag-into","tag-labour","tag-launched","tag-made","tag-minister","tag-nash","tag-nashs","tag-news","tag-remarks","tag-review","tag-stuart","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-when","tag-woman","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}