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Chlöe Swarbrick's back in Auckland – thrown out of Parliament this week for refusing to apologise for comments in the House.
The Greens co-leader said if six of 68 Government MPs with a spine back her bill to sanction Israel, New Zealand can stand on the right side of history.
Former Speaker, Sir Lockwood Smith told Kerre Woodham that impugned the Government's integrity and warranted an apology.
He says that all Swarbrick needed to do was withdraw and apologise and that would be the end of the matter, but she chose not to.
Sir John Key made a similar comment without repercussions in 2015, but Smith says he expects he'd have apologised if he'd been asked.
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