The former speaker revisits the Ardern years, defends his response to the parliamentary occupation and suggests foreign financing was at play. After a high-profile, influential and sometimes pugnacious career in politics that spanned the 1980s through to the 2020s, Trevor Mallard hasn’t quite given it away yet. He’s been providing advice to Chris Hipkins – the Labour leader whose first work in parliament was as a staffer in Mallard’s ministerial…