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Key has no problems working with Len Brown
14:51 Wed Oct 16 2013 AAP

Auckland Mayor Len Brown's extramarital affair won't affect the way the government works with him, Prime Minister John Key says.
Mr Brown on Tuesday admitted having a two-year affair with Bevan Chuang, who is on the council's Ethnic Peoples Advisory Panel.

He isn't going to resign and says the revelations by right-wing blogger Cameron Slater were politically motivated.

"I intend working with him as the mayor of Auckland," Mr Key told reporters on Wednesday.

"Len has got a job to do and he has always worked very effectively with the government.

"We're interested in the things that matter, housing and transport, and we'll be talking to him about those issues - not about any other issues."

Mr Key wouldn't comment on the 57-year-old mayor's affair with Ms Chuang, who is 32.

"It's a matter for Len Brown and his family," he said.

Asked whether he thought Mr Brown should resign, Mr Key said he wasn't going to express a view on that.

Local Government Minister Chris Tremain says he isn't worried about the stability of the council.

"The council is still there, there hasn't been a changeover, I'm happy to continue working with him."

Ms Chuang unsuccessfully stood in Saturday's local body elections for a seat on a suburban board, running on the right-leaning Community and Residents ticket.

Right-winger John Palino was Mr Brown's strongest opponent and his campaign manager was former National Party president John Slater.

Cameron Slater, who broke the story, is John Slater's son.

Mr Key said he didn't think the National Party had anything to do with it.

The Whaleoil blogger is defending the decision to publish the story, saying he had received threatening texts warning him not to.

Cameron Slater said normally he agreed the private lives of New Zealand politicians were treated as sacrosanct, but that Mr Brown had conducted his affair from his office, used official functions to entertain Ms Chuang, and had paraded his family before the cameras.

"But what removed all doubt from my mind is when anonymous text messages were being sent to me, my family, contacts and friends that threatened repercussions if I published this story. I decided to hold it back until after the election result," he said on his website.

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