A senior advisor to the Prime Minister has resigned in the wake of the Dirty Politics scandal.
Nicky Hager's book Dirty Politics was released weeks out from the election and included allegations that Jason Ede accessed Labour's online membership records without authorisation and passed the information to WhaleOil blogger Cameron Slater.
This morning, on TV3's Firstline, the prime minister confirmed Ede had resigned.
“He's given 11 years of very loyal service and he's worked hard for us,” Key said.
“There are some comments made in the book that we would all strongly disagree with – his primary role really, started out as a media person for us, and was in that sort of research, and part of his role was talking to bloggers.”
Did he fall or was he pushed? Jason Ede leaves the PM's staff. Key says Ede decided it was "time to move on".
— Don Rood (@TheDonRood) September 21, 2014
