Mike Hosking: The dream run for Act is over

For a party that has been as clean as a whistle in terms of candidates, it all came unstuck yesterday.

This past term saw an increase in numbers and as history shows, in parties like New Zealand First, the United Party, and to some degree the Greens, when you expand you run the risk of having a talent pool issue.

The star of that show is New Zealand first and the arrival of the Tight Five - Tau Henare, Tuku Morgan and all that particular cluster that eventually imploded.