By Rebecca Wright
The fallout from Heather Roy's leaked dossier documenting the breakdown between her and Rodney Hide continued today with Mr Hide having to defend himself…again.
“I can emphatically say that I have never approached any minister about drug use by Heather Roy as alleged by the member opposite,” Mr Hide says.
An 80-page document was leaked to media yesterday. In it Ms Roy says she felt unsafe being alone with Mr Hide, that he uses bullying tactics and was actively undermining her as a minister.
“I reject those allegations and so too has the caucus,” Mr Hide said today.
Mr Hide and Ms Roy fronted yesterday in an attempt to "move on", but Mr Hide continues to undermine her, telling reporters she wasn't a good minister.
“I think that she's got off track as a minister sadly and I believe we can get her back on track and it’s my responsibility as leader to ensure that,” he says.
ACTs other members tried to put a brave face on the debacle.
“The issue is that Heather and Rodney sat down on the couch and they agreed to move forward and that's good enough for me,” says ACT MP Sir Roger Douglas.
David Garrett was in similar support.
“It’s been a difficult couple of days - we're going to have to show and I agree with Roger that we can pull together,” says Mr Garrett.
A former ACT MP says the relationship is broken.
And they weren't optimistic in Mr Hide's electorate - Epsom.
The mess all began for ACT with Mr Hide’s taxpayer funded trip with his girlfriend last November. Many wondered then whether Mr Hide could survive - what's happened this week is ugly and it could yet prove to be the end of the party.
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