With businesses hemorrhaging money by the day, the Government should be discussing the move to Level 1 now, not in a week, Leader of the Opposition Todd Muller says.
"The Prime Minister and her Cabinet could have discussed the move to Level 1 today. It's not good enough that all they did was agree to meet again next week to make a call."
National is demanding the Government immediately release the secret Cabinet papers on which it decided last week to stay in Level 2.
"Divisions between Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters are causing confusion about what the secret papers say about how safe it would be to move to Level 1," Mr Muller says.
"The Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister have both read the same Cabinet papers but one is telling us it is too dangerous to move to Level 1 while the other says it would be perfectly safe.
"Moving to Level 1 as soon as it is safe is of the greatest importance to small businesses and the thousands of Kiwis losing their jobs each week.
"The public deserves to see the same advice Ms Ardern and Mr Peters are publicly disagreeing about."
