{"id":505603,"date":"2026-07-02T04:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/505603\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T04:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:29:12","slug":"michael-laws-to-announce-candidacy-for-nz-first-tomorrow-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/505603\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Laws to announce candidacy for NZ First tomorrow morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael Laws’ candidacy for NZ First is expected to be announced tomorrow. <\/p>\n

Michael Laws is expected to announce his candidacy for NZ First on Friday morning, ending weeks of speculation over whether the broadcaster will be campaigning to return to Parliament this year. <\/p>\n

\n Laws\u2019 announcement has been widely tipped and is expected to be made on The Platform tomorrow morning on
\n Sean Plunket\u2019s show.\n <\/p>\n

Laws has been an MP before. He entered Parliament as a National MP in 1990. In 1996, he defected to NZ First. <\/p>\n

In the intervening years, he has served on the Otago Regional Council and has broadcast on The Platform, the online broadcaster founded by Sean Plunket. <\/p>\n

Laws is no stranger to controversy. He described former Governor-General Anand Satyanand as a \u201clarge, fat man\u201d who has \u201cnever left\u201d the buffet table.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25429,9516,102329,155811,36302,5346,1888,2082,4999,12472,5494,1304,111,43,139,69,1523,24637,1527,9871,1961,61,701,4518,14905,1533,379],"class_list":["post-505603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-announce","tag-broadcaster","tag-campaigning","tag-candidacy","tag-ending","tag-expected","tag-first","tag-for","tag-friday","tag-laws","tag-michael","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-parliament","tag-return","tag-speculation","tag-this","tag-to","tag-tomorrow","tag-weeks","tag-whether","tag-will","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505603","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=505603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}