ELECTION 2020: National faces total list MP wipe-out on latest polling

ELECTION 2020: National faces total list MP wipe-out on latest polling
Pattrick Smellie
The National Party would lose front-bench MPs and at least three members of its shadow Cabinet if last night’s Newshub-Reid Research poll translated into election night results.The poll of 1,000 people between July 16 and 24 takes in most of new leader Judith Collins’ first week in the role and had begun before the resignation of disgraced MP Andrew Falloon. It put National at just 25.1 percent and Labour at 60.9 percent.National is calling it a ‘rogue’ poll at odds with its internal polling. The result is also understoo...

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