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Prime Minister Helen Clark has again denied knowing anything about the secret taping of comments by National MPs and says the party is trying to divert attention from what was said by focusing on who did it.
National is trying to find out who infiltrated its annual conference and talked to MPs at a cocktail party 10 days ago about sensitive policies.
Deputy leader Bill English was recorded saying National would "eventually" sell Kiwibank and Lockwood Smith said the party was adopting policies it didn't like so it wouldn't scare voters before the election.
The Government has accused National of having a secret agenda, and National in turn has said it suspects a member of Labour's youth wing posed as a member of Young National at the conference.
"I can assure you, hand on heart, that I know nothing of this whatsoever," Helen Clark said today on NewstalkZB.
"I think the National Party is trying to divert this onto who did it."
Helen Clark said the MPs had been talking about their "real agenda" and it was going to try to con the electorate.
National is still going through hours of surveillance camera tapes which recorded people going into and coming out of the cocktail party in Wellington's Michael Fowler Centre.
But even if they identify the individual, a young man, they are unlikely to be able to do anything about it.
Legal experts have suggested that the best they could achieve would be a civil prosecution for trespass.
- NZPA
