We're helping Labour leader David Shearer discover who's been telling tales out of school to 3News journalist Patrick Gower. To do that, we're working our way sequentially through the Labour caucus.
Grant Robertson is David Shearer's loyal deputy leader; that's the theory anyway. But it is well known that Grant Robertson himself has ambitions to his boss' job.
Jim Bolger (Don McKinnon) and Helen Clark (Michael Cullen) wrote the manual on appointing a deputy, and John Key has followed suit. Having a deputy who has designs on your desk is not a clever strategy.
Grant Robertson would be an obvious suspect. The leader's office is stacked with Robertson's friends and appointees. The MP for Wellington Central is ambitious. But we reckon that he is perhaps TOO obvious a suspect.
We wouldn't rule him out as being involved (just like Peter Dunne), but as far as being the actual mole himself, we'd rate Mr Robertson as a 6/10; we reckon there are stronger prospects elsewhere in the Labour caucus. And we reserve the right to revisit Mr Robertson further down the track.
Tomorrow we'll move on to the #3 ranked Labour MP, David Parker. Do check us out!
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