National says the public has a right to know the results of an investigation into a Labour minister's treatment of her staff.
1 NEWS understands Customs Minister Meka Whaitiri is facing an allegation of assaulting a staff member.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern yesterday said she had accepted the minister's offer to stand aside while an investigation into a staffing matter in her ministerial office is carried out.
Simon Bridges says the matter is serious.
“I think a minister is not stood down from government unless there’s been more than a tiff or a disagreement, it must have been more than that,” Bridges said.
“New Zealanders will deserve ultimately to know what has happened here, given that she has been stood down.”
Whaitiri is the second minister to be stood down from her roles in less than a week after Clare Curran was stood down from cabinet over a second meeting she failed to properly declare.
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