With a general election due in less than a year, party strategists are already perusing poll results intently, testing political trends and working on how to frame the shape of the campaign itself.
This could be especially difficult for those in the Labour camp. The problem is the long list of policies unfufilled, stacked up along the promise of the 2017 slogan: “Let’s Do This”.
Voters’ memories are short, but not so short that they won’t recall Labour was going to solve the housing “crisis” with KiwiBuild, eliminate child poverty, make the tax system fairer with a capital gains tax, repair the “broken” welfare system, and “fix” the health sector after “nine years of neglect”.
As well, there was the commitment to invest in public transport rather than new highways.
And just as 2019 began, Jacinda Ardern in her role as Prime Minister promised it would be the
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