Cam Slater: Woohoo, a By-Election in Hamilton West!

In a Facebook post Dr Gaurav Sharma has announced his resignation from Parliament, thereby triggering a by-election in Hamilton West. The Government needs this like a hole in the head. There is a very high chance that Labour will lose the by-election.

NZCPR Newsletter: The Biggest Bully

A week that started well for National with a good TVNZ poll result and positive coverage from their annual conference, quickly deteriorated, as the media spotlight descended onto their new Tauranga MP Sam Uffindell. 

The Labour Party, which had been alerted to his expulsion from school as a 16-year-old for bullying more than a week before the by-election, would no doubt have welcomed National’s difficulties. But any hope they might have harboured that Christopher Luxon would be exposed as knowingly supporting the election of a bully, quickly faded as the facts emerged.