An Act Party policy that would allow shopkeepers to arm themselves against violent robberies is a "recipe for disaster" the Prime Minister says.

It seems New Zealand First leader Winston Peters can’t quite bring himself to utter the words “Colin Craig“or “the Conservative Party“.

Labour's finance spokesman David Parker this morning jibed that Act-held Epsom should be used to trial that party's policy of abolishing the Resource Management Act.

The Act Party would seek to abolish the Overseas Investment Office and the Resource Management Management Act if it became part of the next government.

Prime Minister John Key slotted in his first campaign visit to the Epsom electorate yesterday and found not everybody was willing to go along with his instructions to vote for Act's David Seymour.

Despite the lack of a beverage-based endorsement, the true-blue seat of Epsom remains dogged by controversy this election.

Education Minister Hekia Parata is in negotiation in the hope of opening more charter schools next year, possibly allowing tertiary institutions to run them.

Act Party leader Dr Jamie Whyte said the party wants to see Youth Court and Family Court open to public scrutiny.

Act leader Jamie Whyte says Christine Rankin's entry into the Epsom election contest will have no impact because her Conservative party appeals to simple-minded voters, not educated Epsom voters.

Epsom election candidates faced off at a public debate last night, with one promising to name a convicted sex offender with name suppression under parliamentary privilege.

Politicians seldom get to anoint a successor. That was especially so for me. Readers may recall I left with a bit of a hiss and a roar at a time I least expected it.

Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy has rejected Act leader Jamie Whyte’s call for her resignation saying there is a lot of work to do to improve race relations in NZ.

Act Leader Jamie Whyte has suggested Fiji as a model for a rejig of race based laws in this country in an open letter to Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy.

Act leader Jamie Whyte says his speech on Maori legal privilege shouldn't have come as a surprise to anyone, not least a former candidate who quit.

An ACT party candidate and board member has reportedly resigned over his leader's speech on race, which he says was a 'stunt' for the polls.

Act leader Jamie Whyte's been caught short once again - this time clueless about Whanau Ora.

Jamie Whyte's college specialties included the nature of truth and belief, but his speech to the Waikato Conference stretched one and beggared the other, writes Paul Little.

When Dame Susan Devoy was appointed Race Relations Commissioner last year, the intelligentsia sniffed at the choice of a squash champion.

Toby Manhire took Jamie Whyte to a local pub quiz for our candid series on party leaders

In those terms, it is hard to know what to make of Whyte's self-made maelstrom around race and privilege in New Zealand law.

Act's leader says Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy should quit over her criticism of his racial equality comments.

Act Leader Jamie Whyte has returned serve to Dame Susan Devoy over her criticism of his claims Maori enjoy legal privilege.

Act Leader Jamie Whyte called for a taskforce to root out and repeal laws giving special treatment to Maori as race once again loomed as an election issue today.

What goes through the minds of educational professionals when they see the lengths that property owners will go to remain in a prestigious school zone?

One thing Whyte seems to ignore, despite his huge intelligence, is that some ideas which sound perfectly rational on paper bear no resemblance to human existence as we know it.

A DVD of The Wolf of Wall Street will be introduced to court as evidence in a private prosecution against Prime Minister John Key and a senior police officer.