NZ First Leader, Winston Peters, denies he is stirring up fear in order to get his party back in to the halls of power, after describing the Government's agenda as "malignant paternalism" and "inverse racism"
At the party's annual conference in Christchurch yesterday, Mr Peters attacked the Government on immigration, crime, climate change and co-governance.
He accused it of ramming a separatist agenda down voters' throats and scattering the seeds of apartheid.
The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, says Mr Peters is trying to get headlines and doesn't want to give them gravitas by responding.
Māni Dunlop spoke to University of Auckland politics lecturer Dr Lara Greaves
