Editing Michael Laws (section)

=== 1996 general election ===
Laws remained involved in politics and managed New Zealand First's campaign for the [[1996 New Zealand general election|general election]] held on 12 October 1996. He would later write in his political autobiography that the experience resembled nursing a stick of unstable dynamite. Later he served as an adviser to New Zealand First MP and Associate Minister of Health [[Neil Kirton]] in the [[Fourth National Government of New Zealand|National–New Zealand First coalition government]] until Kirton was removed as a minister in 1997.