Another poll has Labour able to govern alone

Another poll has Labour able to govern alone
Labour's campaign launch MC Oscar Kightley clowns with NZ First leader Winston Peters this weekend
Pattrick Smellie
The Labour Party’s likelihood of being able to govern alone, if it wishes, has been confirmed in the second public opinion poll to be released in the last week.TV3’s Newshub-Reid Research poll gives Labour 50.1 percent support, against 29.6 percent for the National Party.Both National and the NZ First parties appear to be bleeding votes either to Labour or to the libertarian Act party of David Seymour, which recorded support of 6.5 percent in this poll of 1,000 people, taken between Sept. 16 and 23.NZ First recorded just 1.9 percent...

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