To understand the National Party, and the forces that drive its MPs, then a selection meeting in its rural heartland is a revealing insight.
On Sunday 57 National Party "delegates", a number of Waikato MPs …
National's three leadership candidates are opening up deep divisions within the caucus that have been papered over for the past decade by the extraordinary popularity of John Key.
All through yesterday at h…
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When the Prime Minister sets out the four basic conditions his Government needs to meet to ensure its re-election it probably is not surprising that health is ther…
Prime Minister John Key's resignation has caught his Caucus unprepared.
They have no agreed replacement.
At a telephone conference call with the caucus yesterday, one participant said the MPs greeted his n…
For the second time in recent months, National Party supporters have stayed at home on election day only to allow Labour an overwhelming victory.
First was the centre left’s clean sweep in the Auckland Co…
