David Cunliffe
David Richard Cunliffe HFIITP (born 30 April 1963) is a New Zealand politician and member of the New Zealand Labour Party. He is the sitting member of parliament for New Lynn, West Auckland. He served as the Minister of Health and Minister for Communications and Information Technology for the Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand from October 2007 until November 2008. After the defeat of the Labour Party in the 2008 general election, and the resignation of Helen Clark as the party leader, Cunliffe was appointed the party's finance spokesman and number three on the front bench. After Labour lost the 2011 general election and Phil Goff stood down as party leader, Cunliffe ran for the leadership, but lost to David Shearer. On 26 August 2013, Cunliffe announced a second leadership bid after David Shearer's departure from the leadership and was elected leader on 15 September 2013. Following Labour's defeat at the general election in September 2014, he resigned as leader of the Labour Party and initially contested the subsequent leadership election. However he then withdrew his nomination for the leadership election before the process started.