It sounded like a double dose of news of the sort that is apt to lift a Prime Minister’s popularity in political opinion polls and boost support for her party.
One goodie was a public holiday, the other the relaxing of Covid constraints.
This certainly looked like a vote-winner to the political pundits at Point of Order.
But the populist Winston Peters, leader of New Zealand First, has pounced on what he presumably perceives to be an opportunity to pick up support by expressing opposition to the public holiday.
