Winston Peters confirms the government's plans to scrap the fees-free university scheme in the upcoming Budget, calling the announcement a 'Budget leak'.
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Now, you know, budget leaks usually are treated very seriously because you can imagine an MMP government. You can't have uh other parties sitting around the cabinet table, you're discussing uh what you're going to do in the budget, and then one breaks ranks and comes out and is heathered on radio on um News Talk ZB. Um they uh Winston said it'd be scrapped in the budget. The Prime Minister, though, was pretty relaxed about uh what um all that had as post-cabinet news conference, even though you're standing alongside Nicola Willis.
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