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The Richard Worth saga continues to hound John Key who says the public doesn't need to know what the MP did to lose his trust.
The Prime Minister faced dozens of questions on the issue on Monday and eventually tried to close the issue down.
Key hasn't exactly been backing winners recently. National got thumped in Saturday's Mt Albert by-election, capping a bad week in which Worth resigned from parliament.
But the Prime Minister won't tell the public why he lost confidence in Worth and sacked him as a minister.
"For me it's the chapter closed to that story and I'm moving on," says Key.
"Well as I say, he lost my confidence and that's the end of the matter as far as I'm concerned."
But it wasn't the end of the matter as Key faced dozens of questions.
Last week, his reason for not commenting was that he didn't want to contaminate a police investigation.
"It was nothing of a legal nature," he said on Monday.
Now that Worth is no longer an MP, the public may never know what he did wrong.
"He's a member of the public, and on that basis the matter has been dealt with," says Key.
The Prime Minister says we just have to trust his judgement.
"I think the New Zealand public do trust me to be a fair but reasonable person," says Key.
So do his Cabinet colleagues even know what the new standards are?
"I haven't gone through the specific details with them but I think they know that I'm a reasonable person," says Key.
Nathan Guy replaces Worth as Internal Affairs minister.
"John Key expects the best from all his ministers. Very high standards," says Guy.
That may be so but it's difficult to judge when the Prime Minister won't reveal the facts in the one case where a minister failed to meet those standards.
