{"id":20815,"date":"2020-07-22T08:59:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T23:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/22\/jacinda-ardern-sacks-immigration-minister-over-year-long-affair-with-staff-member"},"modified":"2020-07-22T12:05:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T03:05:41","slug":"jacinda-ardern-sacks-immigration-minister-over-year-long-affair-with-staff-member-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20815","title":{"rendered":"Jacinda Ardern sacks immigration minister over year-long affair with staff member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iain Lees-Galloway fired following a tip off to New Zealand\u2019s PM from the opposition leader <\/p>\n<p>Jacinda Ardern has fired her immigration minister after being tipped off by the opposition leader that he had engaged in a 12-month-affair with a staffer in his office.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s prime minister said on Wednesday that Iain Lees-Galloway had accepted his situation was untenable, and Ardern was concerned that an abuse of power may have taken place. The affair took place over a 12-month period and ended several months ago, Ardern said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/22\/jacinda-ardern-sacks-immigration-minister-over-year-long-affair-with-staff-member\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iain Lees-Galloway fired following a tip off to New Zealand\u2019s PM from the opposition leader Jacinda Ardern has fired her immigration minister after being tipped off by the opposition leader that he had engaged in a 12-month-affair with a staffer in his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,268,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20844,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20815\/revisions\/20844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}