PATTRICK SMELLIE: Can Simon Bridges hang on?

PATTRICK SMELLIE: Can Simon Bridges hang on?
Pattrick Smellie
Tonight's Reid Research poll for Newshub shows what various private and leaked polls have shown for weeks and what everybody knows: the government is wildly popular right now because its response to covid-19 has held the virus at bay.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is hugely popular as the face of that response.Labour is at 56.5 percent in this poll, taken last week and including a big-spending Budget, and Ardern is at 59.5 percent. Those results are up a massive 14 percentage points and 20.8 percentage respectively on Newshub's ...

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