National says the Government's latest coronavirus restrictions are unnecessary and inhumane.
A bill allowing authorities to enforce Level 1 and 2 restrictions has passed its first and second readings without National's support.
The Government will put it to a third reading this morning, before Level 2 takes effect tonight.
National leader Simon Bridges told Mike Hosking the bill gives the police and health minister even more powers than they had during lockdown.
Bridges says it’s time Kiwis were treated like adults and trusted to do the right thing.
"It's not just unkind, it's inhumane.
"If you can socially distance at a movie theatre with 99 other people you can do the same at a funeral or a church,"
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