Always an outlier has tried for party leadership and failed, at least another failure Andrew Little did manage to get the seat of leader.
Parker has always coveted the savings and earnings of successful New Zealanders to advance his socialist dreams. always exhibiting a superior understanding of spending other peoples money to advance his career.
One incident in an otherwise ordinary career, Parker’s scurrilous moves on the partner of a supposed “Mate Chris Knox who had suffered a debilitating stroke. Dear old mate David undertook an ultra level of support for the partner Barbara Ward.
That and contretemps around a partnership breakup in Dunedin involving shenanigans over company reporting rules and dissolution of a business arrangement over apartment construction left one with unanswered questions.
A typical nasty socialist seeking a free ride to glory on the works and industry of others, he is one I am certainly pleased to see depart, I do not care should a door give him a well deserved smack in the arse in leaving.
No Minister 
David Parker was the Labour government’s Attorney-General who appealed the Court of Appeal decision (which was in favour of Family First’s charitable status), and took Family First to the Supreme Court.
According to the Attorney-General, promoting strong families and marriages is not in the public benefit or charitable, but promoting environmentalism and human rights (aka identity politics etc) is.
Yeah, good riddance