Todd Barclay

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Todd Barclay
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Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Clutha-Southland
In office
20 September 2014 –23 September 2017
YearsTermElectorateListParty
2014 –2017 51st Clutha-Southland 54 National

Barclay won the election by a significant margin to Labour's Liz Craig, [7] obtaining nearly 64% of the candidate votes. [8] Barclay was the first New Zealand MP to be born in the 1990s and at the time of his election, at age 24 he was the youngest MP in the House of Representatives. [1] He delivered his maiden statement on 22 October 2014, in which he explained that he wanted contribute to the portfolios of primary industries, education, trade, and tourism. He also spoke to Margaret Thatcher's views on "moral society." [9]

During his term in Parliament, Barclay sat as a member of the primary production committee and education and science committee. He was deputy chair of the law and order committee from 2015 to 2017, and chaired his other two committees for several months in 2017. [10]

On 10 April 2015 Barclay featured in news media for criticising supporters of current affairs television show Campbell Live which had been threatened with cancellation. He subsequently deleted his Twitter comment. [11]

In November 2016, media reports indicated that Queenstown resident Simon Flood intended to challenge Barclay for selection as the National candidate for Clutha-Southland at the 2017 election. [12] [13] At a party meeting on 21 December 2016 to select the candidate for the Clutha-Southland electorate in 2017, Barclay won the selection over challenger Simon Flood. [14]

Clandestine recording scandal

On 9 February 2016, Glenys Dickson, a senior electorate agent for Barclay, resigned because of an "employment problem" between the two. Dickson, originally the electorate agent for Bill English from 1998 to 2014, became Barclay's agent in 2014 after he replaced Bill English as the MP for Clutha-Southland. The circumstances leading to her resignation were described as confidential. [15] Later that month Stuart Davie, the Clutha-Southland chairman, became the third resignation of Barclay's staff in 2016, Barbara Swan being the first. Davie claimed it was "untenable" to stay on at present. [16]

On 21 June 2017, after revelations that Barclay had made clandestine recordings of staff members he suspected of being critical of him, Barclay announced that he would not stand for re-election. [2] [3] Secretly recording a conversation that you are not party to is a crime in New Zealand. [17] [18] [19] He subsequently left New Zealand and moved to London, [20] later moving to Sydney and Saudia Arabia where he works as a consultant for KPMG. [21]

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  2. 1 2 "Government gives secret payment to MP Todd Barclay's former employee over clandestine recording". Stuff.co.nz. 20 June 2017. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
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  5. ↑ "New Local National Party Candidate". Dipton Community Website. Archived from the original on 26 September 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
  6. ↑ Ibbotson, Lucy; Roxburgh, Tracey (12 May 2014). "I'm Todd Barclay. I'm from Dipton. Can I have a job?". Otago Daily Times . Retrieved 26 September 2014.
  7. ↑ "Election 2014: Southland decides". The Southland Times . 20 September 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
  8. ↑ Hayes, Lauren; Railton, Bridget; Jamieson, Debbie (20 September 2014). "Landslide win for Barclay". The Southland Times . Retrieved 26 September 2014.
  9. ↑ Barclay, Todd (24 October 2014). "Address in Reply". New Zealand House of Representatives. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
  10. ↑ "Barclay, Todd". New Zealand House of Representatives. 25 September 2017. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
  11. ↑ McLeod, Hannah (10 April 2015). "National MP Todd Barclay blasts Campbell Live supporters". The Southland Times . Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  12. ↑ "National MP Todd Barclay facing selection challenge in Clutha-Southland". Stuff.co.nz. 29 November 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  13. ↑ "Selection row in National electorate could cut MP's career short". Politik.co.nz. 29 November 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  14. ↑ "Barclay remains National Party Clutha Southland candidate". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
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  16. ↑ Harding, Evan; Pickett, Brittany (29 February 2016). "National party Clutha-Southland chairman Stuart Davie resigns". Stuff. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
  17. ↑ "216A Interpretation". Government of New Zealand. 1 March 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  18. ↑ "216B Prohibition on use of interception devices". Government of New Zealand. 1 March 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
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