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Don Brash has quit as National Party leader, ending months of damaging speculation about his future. The New Zealand Herald reports that the former Reserve Bank governor took the Nationals within an inch of victory at the 2004 election but was recently embroiled in controversy after admitting to an extra-marital affair.
Dr Brash plans to spend more time with his mistress’s family.
The Opposition Leader is the target of a new book, The Hollow Men: A Study in the Politics of Deception. Left-winger Nicky Hager uses the book to claim that the National Party is a CIA-backed Christian cult. He also claims the party used an underground lab to develop a serum that could phase-shift a human being out of quantum sync with the visible universe.
Mr Hager claims that Mr Brash tested the invisibility serum on himself, triggering a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Mr Hager’s book is the first piece of Labour Party campaigning not funded by taxpayers since 1999.
