Politics Live Blog - June 2-9

Seymour said New Zealand had experienced its "largest outflow in history".

According to Seymour, 78,000 citizens had left on a permanent or long-term basis in the year leading up to March.

Whilst 26,000 had returned, the net lost marked the "first time more than 50,000 citizens left in a year". 

He said this was a "narrative reversal" - whereby the risk takers and entrepreneurs were now migrating away from New Zealand.