As one of Labour's prime "attack" MPs and one who knows Parliament's rules backwards, Trevor Mallard is the ideal person to hound and harass Peter Dunne.
If Peter Dunne thought everything would be tickety-boo once the Prime Minister reinstated him as a minister, he was wrong.
Since Parliament resumed late last month - shortly after John Key reappointed the United Future and Ohariu MP to his ministry following his six months in the political sin-bin -
Labour's Trevor Mallard has made it his mission to make Dunne's life miserable.
Mallard himself is on the outer these days, but has been given licence by the Cunliffe regime to pepper Dunne in Parliament with questions about the leaking last year of the Kitteridge report into the workings of the Government Communications Security Bureau in the hope of making Dunne squirm until he can squirm no longer and confesses to being the culprit who passed the report to a Fairfax journalist.
Dunne is unlikely to crack. But targeting him is one means of Labour reminding voters that Dunne's relatively early reappointment to a ministerial post after being sacked by Key for not fully co-operating with the official inquiry into the leak is ample illustration of the degree to which National is willing to compromise on principle to retain power.
As one of Labour's prime "attack" MPs and one who knows Parliament's rules backwards, Mallard is the ideal person to hound and harass Dunne.
