Pollies: Labour's Tangi Utikere and National's Mark Mitchell on the deployment of the NZ Defence Force against Houthis

Labour says New Zealand has no place in the fight against Houthi rebels.   Six personnel are being deployed to the Red Sea to support coalition airstrikes against the group, who have been attacking commercial shipping.   Labour and the Green Party have come out against the move.   Labour's Palmerston North MP Tangi Utikere says the move has shades of the Iraq invasion.   He told Tim Dower that National should follow Helen Clark's example, and not support this latest venture.   On the other hand, National’s Mark Mitchell said that it’d be wrong to bury our heads in the sand and say it doesn’t impact us.  He said that the Houthi attacks on shipping lines has a big impact on New Zealand, and the Government has been clear that we have to support our partners in the US and UK.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.