Chris Hipkins has come back swinging after comments made by Stuart Nash.

The ex-Police Minister yesterday criticised Hipkins and Justice Minister Kiri Allan, for dashing his attempts to tighten laws on seizing illegal gang assets worth at or more than 30-thousand-dollars.

Nash claims he wanted the threshold at zero, but Hipkins says while he was open to discussion, he didn't support it going to zero.

Hipkins told Mike Hosking he doesn't recall Allan saying it was anti-Maori.

He encouraged Nash and Allan to talk it through at Cabinet, but there was no appetite to go to zero.

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