Colin Craig has been forced to pull one of his candidates into line after he threatened to name the sex offender who Labour Leader David Cunliffe recently met with.

Winston Peters has borrowed heavily from other parties with policy announcements today.

Winston Peters said NZ First’s support is firming up and his party is taking votes from others across the board.

Winston Peters was the one cutting the birthday cake. But someone else was plunging the knife.

Conservative Party Leader Colin Craig has picked up the gauntlet thrown down by Winston Peters over Foreign Minister Murray McCully's East Coast Bays seat.

Conservative Party leader Colin Craig says he would not form a Government with National unless it agreed to introduce binding referenda.

NZ First Leader Winston Peters is promising to announce “game changing” policies to tackle social inequality.

NZ First Leader Winston Peters is taking the fight to Colin Craig by refusing to rule out standing against the Conservative Party Leader in East Coast Bays.

Conservative Party chief executive Christine Rankin has shot back at the critics who have dismissed her party as "loony" and "wacky".

Two retired Hamilton millionaires explain why they've donated $675,000 of their own money to Colin Craig's Conservative Party's campaign.

Colin Craig's Conservative Party has received a hefty new donation - $500,000 from a Hamilton couple.

Colin Craig launched his Conservative Party's election campaign by assuming a strong moral stance - and ruling out any 'insipid cup of tea' electoral deal.

Conservative Party leader Colin Craig has confirmed he will contest Murray McCully's East Coast Bays seat in the September election.

Conservative Party leader Colin Craig is today expected to announce he will contest Murray McCully's East Coast Bays seat in the September election.

Colin Craig's Conservative Party may be buying into a fight over the proposed alternative logo it is trying to register with the Electoral Commission.

The downfall of John Banks may have seemed the story of the week. But the feasting by the mob on what was left of his dignity was essentially a sideshow, if a rather unsavoury one, writes John Armstrong.

Conservative Party leader Colin Craig's family has succeeded in having electorate boundaries redrawn to get his parents and about 120 neighbouring voters shifted into the seat he hopes to win.

The Act Party and the Conservatives have received large donations from their wealthy benefactors ahead of the September election, the latest party returns show.

Labour's support has sunk nearly six points and it is polling only 29.5 per cent in the Herald-DigiPoll survey.

Conservative Party leader Colin Craig says he is trying to "raise the standard of debate'' with his defamation claim against Greens co-leader Russel Norman.

A mock fundraising campaign launched by Colin Craig to cover his defamation case against Russel Norman has collected $50,000 in less than a day.

Conservatives leader Colin Craig has rejected Russel Norman's suggestion he's limited his defamation claim because he's afraid of what's in his emails about gay Kiwis.

Conservatives leader Colin Craig has backed down from a legal dispute about his comments on homosexuality, saying it would be too expensive and time-consuming.

If you're looking for a textbook example of how not to launch a political career, it's hard to go past Act's Jamie Whyte, writes Paul Thomas.

I'm not sure Conservative Party leader Colin Craig is cut out for politics.

Colin Craig prepares defamation case against Greens' co-leader Russel Norman after the MP refused to apologise within a deadline set by Mr Craig this afternoon.

Colin Craig has succeeded in keeping his Conservative Party in the public eye over the past few years

Millionaire Colin Craig says this is the sixth defamation threat he has instructed his lawyers to send out since entering the political arena, writes Brian Rudman.