ELECTION 2020: Nats face a thrashing; will Labour need the Greens?

ELECTION 2020: Nats face a thrashing; will Labour need the Greens?
Pattrick Smellie
The National Party is facing its worst election result since 2002, but the last public opinion polls before polling day suggest it is touch and go whether the Labour Party will be able to govern alone.Either way, the One News Colmar Brunton and Roy Morgan NZ polls, both published this evening, show Labour locked in to lead a second term in government, with little shift in the poll trends already observed in recent weeks.The BusinessDesk Poll Tracker tool, which weights the outcomes of all publicly available polling, suggests Labour could govern...

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