Where's the marker for this? What's the criteria?
How much can you say and do in a "personal capacity" while still holding an elected position of office?
Or should you act and speak publicly according to your position at all times?
We expect these standards of our sports people, our media personalities, and our civil servants ... why not politicians? Why are the rules different for them?
Imagine if the Police Commissioner or Kieran Read started mouthing off whatever they wanted, having it reported, obviously because of who they are, and then getting to back track or hide behind the line "oh I was saying that in a personal capacity so it doesn't count".
It does count. You hold a position, it makes you accountable.
Especially when you are elected by the public.
This poorly advised spin of not reining in her MP's but instead giving them more rope, by allowing them to run off at the mouth, only to then pretend they're not politicians, is BS.
Show some leadership, accept their role in government, and demand they act accordingly. Because if you won't take them seriously when they speak, then how on Earth are we supposed to?