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Nicola Willis’s Blunder: Handing Ruth Richardson a Megaphone She Doesn’t Deserve

How National’s political brains trust missed this is baffling. It is straight out of the playbook. Remember Ronald Reagan’s killer line from 1980: “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” Swap in two years and it fits New Zealand like a glove.

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