National is going all out to attack Labour's leadership.

Herald political editor Audrey Young goes behind the scenes at the CHOGM meeting in Trinidad.

Audrey Young writes that the 1000 year rivalry between France and England may be over, as Nicolas Sarkozy sweeps into the CHOGM meeting.

Political editor Audrey Young is travelling with Prime Minister John Key on an Air Force Boeing 757 to the Chogm meeting in Trinidad.

Day two of John Key's trip to Tokyo.

John Key and his wife Bronagh are getting ready to call on the Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace, writes Audrey Young.

Audrey Young explains just who knew what, and when, about the Maori TV bid for the Rugby World Cup.

John Key has a major problem on his hands and needs to act fast, political blogger Audrey Young says.

Pita Sharples is furious over National's lack of "etiquette and fairplay" for helping TVNZ's Rugby World Cup rights bid, writes Audrey Young.

Herald political editor Audrey Young gives her take on the Green MP's resignation today.

Labour's ex-President Mike Williams had some of the best lines at the Labour Party conference in Rotorua.

Larry Baldock's open letter is critical enough of Key personally for him to be justified in avoiding any personal meeting.

Let's not be too hasty in our praise for Act leader Rodney Hide in standing by his principles over Maori seats on the Auckland super-council.

English and Goff are over-cooking their plight and virtue in the ministerial housing row to ridiculous effect, writes Audrey Young.

It is an indictment on the National Party that such a high calibre candidate as Wira Gardiner could not even be elected to the party's board, writes Audrey Young.

Welfare minister Paula Bennett has sounded half-hearted in defending the release of the welfare bill paid to two critics of training allowance cuts.