Independent MP Hone Harawira has held the first of a series of meetings to discuss setting up a new political party.

Hone Harawira says it was "dumb" and shameful that he forgot to vote on the bill that was the main reason for his break with the Maori Party.

The second reading of the bill to replace the Foreshore and Seabed Act has passed through Parliament and former Maori Party MP Hone Harawira wasn't there to vote against it - despite the bill being the reason for him leaving his party.

Independent MP Hone Harawira says he will have a broom closet for an office and sit in Siberia in Parliament, but it's worth it to be free.

Hone Harawira's decision to quit the Maori Party and become an independent MP is a sensible outcome to an irreconcilable situation, Prime Minister John Key says

Outspoken MP Hone Harawira has left the Maori Party to form a new political movement.

Hone Harawira is likely to be booted out of the Maori Party after a committee deciding his fate recommended to cancel his membership.

Maori Party MP Te Ururoa Flavell's responds to Hone Harawira's public comments on the party.

Hone Harawira, wanted to become a minister when the Maori Party first went into coalition with National, according to a confidential statement by Te Ururoa Flavell.

The Maori Party today continued to hound Local Government Minister Rodney Hide over his attitude to Auckland Council's Maori Statutory Board, asking in Parliament what he meant when he said yesterday it was "inherently divisive".

The overwhelming message from Hone Harawira's Te Tai Tokerau constituents is he should stay with the Maori Party, the MP's electorate committee says.

Hone Harawira has broken down in tears in a TV interview discussing his problems with the Maori Party.

Hone Harawira's very public discomfort reflects the impossibility of being all things to all Maori.

Hone Harawira has broken down in tears in a television interview discussing his ongoing problems with the Maori Party and reiterated his desire to stay in the party.