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Jim Bolger's tribute to former political foe: Anderton was 'a man of principle'

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Newstalk ZB Staff,
Publish Date
Sun, 7 Jan 2018, 3:17PM
Jim Bolger has paid tribute to his former political  foe (Image / Getty Images)
Jim Bolger has paid tribute to his former political foe (Image / Getty Images)

Jim Bolger's tribute to former political foe: Anderton was 'a man of principle'

Author
Newstalk ZB Staff,
Publish Date
Sun, 7 Jan 2018, 3:17PM

Former Prime Minister and National Party leader Jim Bolger has remembered his political foe Jim Anderton as a man who served his country well.

A former Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Anderton passed away overnight in Christchurch aged 79, after an illness.

Mr Bolger said that Mr Anderton displayed a lot of courage in leaving the Labour Party in 1989 and forming the Alliance Party.

He thinks his commitment to what he believed was right was one of his strongest characteristics.

"His memory will be of a man of principle, who stayed the course even when his Party, which he was passionate about from a very early age, had deviated - he stayed the course."

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