When politicians deny and say they aren’t at all interested in the leadership, they’re lying through their teeth.
Kieran McAnulty has long been rumoured to have a hankering for the Labour Party’s leadership. It’s pretty much an open secret around Wellington that when Chris Hipkins manages to secure a golden parachute then McAnulty will step up.
The fact he is denying pretty much confirms that he’s running:
Treasury has the deficit at $6.8 billion and next year within $0.8 billion of surplus. It says that is partly inflation lifting the tax take while spending allowances stay fixed, which is how Willis got there with no new taxes.
The latest 1News poll tells us what we’ve known for a while. National can only get back to power through its electorate MPs.
Greens on a record 16 per cent, National and Labour stuck on 28 per cent and Luxon calls the overhang an ‘insanely stupid idea’. The stupid idea is sticking with two ticks blue while the polls sink.
Mr Hager is known to be working on a follow up to both Dirty Politics and Dirty Work, entitled Dirty Jokes. A compendium of jokes scrawled on the parliamentary bathroom walls. The mothers of several well-known MPs are said to figure prominently.
Treasury has the deficit at $6.8 billion and next year within $0.8 billion of surplus. It says that is partly inflation lifting the tax take while spending allowances stay fixed, which is how Willis got there with no new taxes.
The latest 1News poll tells us what we’ve known for a while. National can only get back to power through its electorate MPs.
