Following his credit card breaches and emotional mea culpa, some are questioning Len Brown's ability to lead the Super City.

Georgina te Heuheu must explain why she ignored warnings that a $4.8m budget allocation was given to a risky company, Labour says.

When your leader sends you home and tells you to consider your political future, you should assume you probably haven't got one.

Labour MP Chris Carter apologises for his credit card and travel spending.

Nanaia Mahuta and Charles Chauvel are among the biggest winners out of a Labour Party reshuffle.

Len Brown broke nearly every rule in the book when he put $810 on his council credit card for a dinner at a Manurewa restaurant last September.

Labour's foreign affairs spokesman MP Chris Carter says he accepts leader Phil Goff's decision to demote him for the wrongful use of his ministerial credit cards while in office.

Three Labour MPs have been demoted for misusing taxpayer-funded credit cards while they were ministers in the previous Government.

Phil Goff swiftly punished his wayward MPs and minimised the damage to his party - and to his own position as leader.

As Phil Goff moves to punish colleagues who misused their official credit cards when they were ministers, attention is now turning to bills that are still to be repaid.

Chris Carter is close to quitting Parliament because he is sick of being attacked as a "luxury-loving gay boy".

A two-week trip to Europe by former Defence and Tourism Minister Mark Burton and his wife included a hotel bill of $15,203.46.