Former Labour MP Hauraki-Waikato’s former MP, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, was unseated by the Te Pāti Māori candidate.

Labour leader to rule out running in next year’s election in a bid for support among voters.

The party had been emboldened to say it did stand for “Treaty-based decision making”, which would lead to a path of building “our sense of national identity and who we are as a country,” she said.

The important task ahead for Maipi-Clarke was to develop her skill set to “translate that into political capital that delivers to her people,” and she should be given “time to grow that talent,” Mahuta said.

There’s one thing doing the haka, there’s another thing delivering to her electorate,” she said.

“The threshold of expectation is to deliver. It’s not what you say, it’s what you do.”

Labour leader to rule out running in next year’s election in a bid for support among voters

The Labour Party has been working hard to strengthen its stance on Treaty-based decision-making.

Former MP Hauraki-Waikato’s former MP, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, was unseated by the Te Pāti Māori candidate.

Labour leader to rule out running in next year’s election in a bid for support among voters

The Labour Party has been working hard to strengthen its stance on Treaty-based decision-making.

Former MP Hauraki-Waikota’s former MP, Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, was unseated by the Te Pāti Māori candidate.

Labour leader will not run in next year’s election, but aims to support a strong Labour bid to earn the trust of voters

The party has been emboldened to say it does stand for “Treaty-based decision making”, which would lead to a path of building “our sense of national identity and who we are as a country,” she said.

Reflecting on the previous term, Mahuta said while Labour’s achievements might have “tried to do too much in the period of time that we had the opportunity to govern”.

Over the past year, she felt the Labour Party had been more emboldened to say it did stand for “Treaty-based decision making”, which would lead to a path of building “our sense of national identity and who we are as a country,”

The party’s aim is to build the constituency of support to go forward, Mahuta said.