John Key says estimates that the assets sales loyalty scheme could cost the taxpayer hundred of millions of dollars are "farcical".

Govt agencies wanted to join a raid on apartments owned by a man later granted citizenship in controversial circumstances.

If Labour thinks National's new five-year targets for improvements in some of New Zealand's ugliest and most depressing statistics are little more than a political gimmick, the party should think again.

John Armstrong looks at why National will hang in there with its asset sales legislation, despite the pain it's endured to make the bill into law.