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This morning:

"This is just the National Party highly embarrassed by the fact that most New Zealanders don't want asset sales and the Labour Party is standing alongside New Zealanders in that view," said Goff.

"We'll keep using those signs. If the council's got a problem we'll listen to them of course, but nobody thinks they're going to be a traffic hazard, that's just nonsense."

This afternoon:

A number of Labour Party campaign signs have been removed from a Hutt Valley street after being found to be in breach of road requirements.

The signs, which emulate road stop signs in shape and colour, but contain the message "Stop asset sales vote Labour", had been erected along the median strip of a road in Petone.

The Hutt City Council, which is the road controlling authority for the area, said this afternoon that the signs had been taken down.

"The signs did not meet any road signage requirements and following a complaint from the public they were removed," the council said in a statement.