Still less than his taxi bill!

Jonathan Hunt, declared by Helen Clark to be one of NZ’s 20 most distinguished living NZers, has spent more than $14,000 on his MFAT chequebook on booze in London. However not all it has been drunk yet – some is stockpiled for the future.

Very crafty of the SST to ask under the OIA for this information. They must have known letting Hunt loose with a taxpayer chequebook for wine purchases was always going to result in a good story.