Damien Grant: ACT is in a death match with NZ First, and the stakes couldn’t be higher

“Let’s be straight up with each other. Any party that wants to ramp up spending is being economically irresponsible. Because the only way to spend more money is to borrow it or to raise taxes.”

Fighting words from the Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in his State of the Nation at the soft opening of the SkyCity convention centre.

And since we begin this week’s column at this beautiful stadium let’s take a moment to remind ourselves how it was paid for.