That was a win on points - air points. Bill English surprised host John Campbell, and maybe adversary Helen Clark too, with a wheeze that Air New Zealand air points will be scrapped in a sale to Qantas.
True? The PM could only retreat behind the claim that no offer is on the table and she feared an insider trading rap if she commented on the commercial affairs of the airline again.
English had just one mission last night: "To tell conservative voters that it's time to come home."
Come home, he said, because the polls had shown Labour could not govern alone. There was no longer any point in trying to save the Government from the Greens.
Clark's final mission of the campaign was to insist that Labour could happily be a minority government after all, doing deals with any party that did not fancy an early election. It was a little lame.
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