Speaker kicks out Simon Bridges and Nick Smith as Auckland MPs are pariahs for the day 9 Mar, 2021 03:51 AM 3 minutes to read Simon Bridges on being ordered to leave the House. Video / Mark Mitchell Do not approach the Auckland MPs. Few are more diligent about enforcing the Prime Minister's Covid edicts than the Speaker, and so he issued orders to ensure Auckland MPs returning to Wellington could remain in their level 2 bubbles while everyone around them swung about at level 1. Journalists in the Press Gallery, staff and party whips were all told that nobody could get within 2m of the MPs from Auckland.