The future diplomat who let down Muldoon’s tyres the night he called a snap election

On the evening of June 14 1984, Sir Robert Muldoon called a snap election. Then he got drunk. But when the prime minister went to drive his own car home to Vogel House in Lower Hutt, he was stymied: his beloved Triumph 1500 had a flat tyre.

Who was it that took the air out of the tyre?

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