RNZ<\/a><\/p>\nBarbara Edmonds told RNZ she got it wrong, and feels “absolutely terrible about it”.<\/p>\n
The comment was made during a question and answer session at a Labour Party candidate list conference at the weekend, and was designed to test MPs about difficult questions that may be put to them, or questions that didn’t make sense.<\/p>\n
Various candidates can be heard, including sitting MP Kieran McAnulty.<\/p>\n
During the exercise, a random question was used that might be put to an MP, and the task for candidates was to respond in a way that may allow them to present Labour’s political messaging instead.<\/p>\n
The question posed in the exercise was “would you rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or one horse-sized duck?”<\/p>\n
McAnulty can be heard responding by saying “I don’t know how many duck-shaped horses, or whatever the hell the question was,” before carrying on to make a point he wanted to make – that may have nothing to do with the question.<\/p>\n
Another candidate is heard saying “100 duck-shaped horses, one horse shaped – has duck” as another voice chips in correcting him that it was “size”.<\/p>\n
When it was her turn to respond, Edmonds said “every week I have to stand up in the house and ask a duck-faced horse – did I get that right [laughs] – questions every single week”.<\/p>\n
Edmonds told RNZ she “clearly said it wrong” and there was no one else at fault, “I take accountability for it.”<\/p>\n
“I absolutely feel terrible about it, and I do apologise for any offence that it caused.<\/p>\n
“Especially to the Minister of Finance. That was not my intention, and I apologise for it.”<\/p>\n
She said she got the question “muddled” and should have written it down.<\/p>\n
She acknowledged there was some irony in muddling up a question in a question and answer session, but said the lesson was to always write down the question.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t have a pen and paper with me, but ultimately it’s my mistake, I muddled it, and I apologise for any offence that it caused.”<\/p>\n
When asked for a response, a spokesperson for the Finance Minister said she had no comment to make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour’s finance spokesperson has apologised to the Finance Minister after audio of her calling Nicola Willis a “duck-faced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,8028,43,135,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-443844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-labour-party","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443844","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=443844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}