MP Phil Twyford has retained his transport portfolio, and also become the spokesperson for housing, in the Labour caucus reshuffle announced by opposition leader Andrew Little.
Twyford is now ranked fifth in the Labour caucus below , he has been a member of parliament since 2008 and currently is the Labour party MP for Te Atatu.
Prior to becoming a parliamentarian, Twyford was a former journalist and unionist, and he was also the founding executive director of Oxfam NZ a position he held from 1991 to 1999 and he was a director of advocacy for Oxfam International based in Washington DC from 1999 to 2003.
