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Government's reform agenda faltering as it still deals with Covid

ANALYSIS: It should be no surprise the Government might be tiring after facing the challenges it has.

NBR political editor Brent Edwards speaks with Jonathan Mitchell.

Brent Edwards Thu, 04 Aug 2022

As a general rule of thumb governments tend to run out of steam in their third term in office.

The responsibility and sheer workload starts to weigh ministers down, particularly whoever is Prime Minister. Remember Labour Prime Minister Helen Clark during the 2008 general election campaign. She had

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Brent Edwards Thu, 04 Aug 2022
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