Former All Black captain Taine Randall will stand for the conservative-leaning nationalist party, New Zealand First (NZ First).
He played 51 tests between 1996 and 1999 and led the national rugby team to 12 wins in 22 tests, after having been the youngest player ever to captain provincial side Otago at age 19 years and 152 days.
He is currently a director of a Māori tribe’s asset holding company, including a stake in the Fiordland Lobster Company, the country’s largest exporter of live crayfish, marketed under its KiwiLobster brand.
Randall confirmed to the NZ Herald’s Ryan Bridge TODAY programme that he had been approached by the centre-left Labour Party in the past but declined because “at the time. I didn’t care.”…
Former All Blacks Captain to Run for Conservative-Leaning NZ First Party
