Muller ToddTODD MULLER (National—Bay of Plenty): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. So when the story of the 2023 election is written as it will surely be and edited by Stephen Levine as it most surely will be this week will be identified as the week that the Labour Government lost the election.So let's helicopter back up to just before Christmas last year when it was very clear that Prime Minister Ardern had lost the country. The polls were talking to a huge defeat for the Labour Government and the senior team of four or five decided that there needed to be a seamless transition to Chris Hipkins. That occurred at the start of the year and he stood up immediately and said that the Ardern era is over and that this is a new Government that will be focused on bread and butter issues.So let's just test how well that has gone. His signature focus of course has been the Budget. And you've heard a couple of MPs try to talk about that today. So the bread and butter focus has been an utter failure. Any conversation with any New Zealander can reinforce that point. Inflation is at the highest level it's been in decades. Interest rates are going up. Every action that they are seeking to put on the table is creating more pressure on New Zealand households.Hon Louise Upston: And pain.TODD MULLER: And pain as Louise Upston has said and it is real. So the only other focus that he had or approach that he had was to try and create the impression in New Zealand that somehow his Government was focused on the issues that matter for New Zealand and was different from the incredibly unpopular Government of his predecessor.But over the last few weeks he has had four hammer blows to his credibility. First up: the Hon Stuart Nash. I like him as a guy but he had to leave Cabinet for disclosing confidential information from Cabinet to external people—a remarkable failure in judgment. Then Meka Whaitiri had to leave and walked away from her Cabinet colleagues and the Prime Minister without even picking up the phone and telling them why. And then Jan Tinetti is now in front of the Privileges Committee because of her behaviour. And in this week one of the Government's rising stars in the front bench quoted as a future leader is stood down from Cabinet because he was asked by the Cabinet Office to sell shares that conflicted him as a transport Minister—not once not twice not three times but 12 times.Everyone in this House knows that that is fatal politically. Perhaps he could have hung on to an argument which said I am so busy I have so much to do I am so important that this just slipped my mind and I should have got round to it." when he told the media and his boss yesterday that actually he had been told five times to do it but 24 hours later he had to admit and force his boss to admit under the cross-examining by the deputy leader of the National Party that actually it's not five times that he was reminded it's not half a dozen times that he was reminded it was 12 times.So a Prime Minister that has essentially said to New Zealand "We are different to what we were pre-Christmas." has now demonstrated that he is weak and he has lost control and four Ministers—nearly a fifth of Cabinet—have had to be sacked or walked away. This is the week that the country has realised that actually these guys have got to go. They simply don't have the capacity to govern in our interests."