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Labour leadership: no substance and much weirdness

Voters are not a weird separate species the Labour Party has to somehow work out how to connect with. Yet to listen to the party's leadership contenders, one gets the impression that is how they see their fellow New Zealanders

Rob Hosking
Mon, 20 Oct 2014

Analysing the big Labour leadership candidate launch by Grant Robertson and Jacinda Ardern on the weekend, one phrase kept jangling around the mind.

There is nothing there.

Or at least, if there is, they are not talking about it.

Mr Robertson – the favoured candidate of Labour’s caucus at the

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Rob Hosking
Mon, 20 Oct 2014
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