Smellie Sniffs the Breeze: on Labour's chances

Smellie Sniffs the Breeze: on Labour's chances
Adulation offshore helped Labour in July, but the domestic political grind now beckons. (Image: Getty)
Pattrick Smellie
Strange though it may be to suggest it, the government may look back on July 2022 as a pretty good month.The prime minister spent much of it offshore, in Europe and Australia, building on a visit to The White House and a late-night US TV appearance that served to remind New Zealanders that however shop-worn she may look at home, Jacinda Ardern is still a bit of a global star.Meanwhile, her primary opponent, Christopher Luxon, was making a bit of a hash of his own $2 shop attempt at prime ministerial globe-trotting, with the main story for local...

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