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Christopher Luxon lays down the law at last weekend's pre-election National party conference. (Image: NZME)
Pattrick Smellie
Simon Bridges has a point.The former National party leader, never one to let an opportunity go by to remind us of what might have been, made three key observations at an event in Auckland last week.The first was incontrovertibly true: that both the traditional parties of government are failing to find the level of support they need to confidently form a government.The polls swirl around, but both Labour and National appear to be stuck in the mid-30s, with no obvious break-out on the horizon, with the Oct 14 election now less than four months aw...

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