{"id":153263,"date":"2020-07-22T01:59:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T23:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/07\/22\/jacinda-ardern-sacks-immigration-minister-over-year-long-affair-with-staff-member\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T01:59:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T23:59:01","slug":"jacinda-ardern-sacks-immigration-minister-over-year-long-affair-with-staff-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=153263","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 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.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. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/22\/jacinda-ardern-sacks-immigration-minister-over-year-long-affair-with-staff-member\" target=\"_blank\">Jacinda Ardern sacks immigration minister over year-long affair with staff member<\/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 office.New Zealand\u2019s prime minister said on Wednesday that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}