Under MMP, electorate seats are filled first. If National wins two extra electorates, then that is two list places gone. Who are two list candidates ahead of Goldsmith? Nicola Willis and Chris Bishop. Both possible challengers for the leadership.
If the National Party caucus had accepted Christopher Luxon’s challenge to replace him.
Kisses of death the Nats are planting on their party and ordinary New Zealanders’ prospects.
Barbara Edmonds wants unemployment back in the Reserve Bank’s mandate. Labour added it in 2018 and the coalition took it out. Last time, cheap money came with an inflation bill.
National wants $604m more for medicines, paid for mostly by a 10 per cent aid cut with the Pacific protected. In May its own budget turned down Pharmac’s request of about $800m and gave it $54m.
Hipkins would not rule He Puapua out on Te Ao with Moana. He said the work is already under way, just not under that name, and that UNDRIP means it has to continue. He renamed the programme and called that leadership.
The latest 1News poll tells us what we’ve known for a while. National can only get back to power through its electorate MPs.
John Key told National voters splitting their vote was ‘the opposite of clever’. Winston Peters called it a suicidal speech. Run the numbers and Winston is the one who can count.
