Frenemy fire: can National's 100-day ambitions survive coalition heat?

Frenemy fire: can National's 100-day ambitions survive coalition heat?
Luxon's next round of meetings around a table may not be so cordial. (Image: BusinessDesk)
Dileepa Fonseka
No plan survives first contact with the enemy or, as former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson famously said: “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”  But, on paper, Christopher Luxon’s 100-day plan for the National party would seem to have a better chance of surviving “frenemy fire” from its potential coalition partners than you might think.  There is plenty of common ground between all three parties involved, on paper anyway, as former prime minister Bill English also pointed out on Busi...

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