PATTRICK SMELLIE: What do the Nats do now?

PATTRICK SMELLIE: What do the Nats do now?
Pattrick Smellie
Todd Muller's only job as National Party leader was to lose the election better than it seemed Simon Bridges was destined to do. Whoever replaces Muller has an even simpler task: save as much of the furniture as possible. While Jacinda Ardern proved in 2017 that it is possible to win an election after only seven weeks in the job and with a smaller vote than the largest party in a new Parliament, there is no sense that National is in a similar position right now. Quite apart from anything else, Little handed the leadership to Ardern, cr...

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