JC: No Way Back for Labour

Last month Nicola Willis released Labour’s leaked policy on GST: to make fruit and vegetables exempt. At the time Labour refused to confirm or deny it was their policy. Grant Robertson was actually against it. Even he had worked out the many fishhooks that would eventuate. A lawyer’s picnic. Like David Parker before him, Grant was unable to convince his leader. Should we now be expecting Grant to relieve himself of the finance portfolio?