PETER GRIFFIN: Are the Nats capable of an innovation-led covid recovery?

PETER GRIFFIN: Are the Nats capable of an innovation-led covid recovery?
Peter Griffin
Many business people who listened to Judith Collins’ first interviews in her role as leader of the Opposition yesterday will have breathed a sigh of relief.Collins may not inspire the same confidence in the business community that John Key, Bill English and Steven Joyce did, but her pledge that as prime minister she would pursue a covid-19 recovery powered by economic growth rather than tax increases saw her get off on the right foot.The question now is what National has in mind for switching the economy back into growth mode, other than...

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