COMMENT: Frustration at fall in polls will blow over and party's best shot at recovery lies with Andrew Little.

COMMENT: This year it's gone from bad to worse for Labour, writes Barry Soper. Even though John Key lost the flag debate he's untainted with National at 50 percent.

A four-point drop in a Colmar Brunton poll taken for TVNZ last week must be a shock to supporters of the Labour Party.

COMMENT: Every time I think of Labour Leader Andrew Little - which I must confess is getting less and less - I can't help but feel sorry for him.

COMMENT: If I were the Labour Party, looking at five more years without power, I would be doing some serious work on the tax issues coming to light lately.

COMMENT: I thought to myself, "Gosh, Sue, here you are on all fours on the ground - you're a kind of Easter bunny!"

COMMENT: Labour has chosen the right topic but needs to get more specific about the solutions.

Mr Little, though, is better than this. He has the misfortune to be leading the Opposition to a Government whose leader seemingly can do no wrong.

COMMENT: Little can afford to have the occasional bad week. It is the effect on the voter that he needs to worry about more.

COMMENT: Labour still come across as the party barking at every passing car, making it up as they go along, writes Toby Manhire.

Immigration NZ figures show 20,000 work visas were given to chefs from overseas in the past five years.

COMMENT: Little gifted National a new weapon to use against his party, the enemy of orthodoxy, writes Audrey Young.

Stuart Nash highlighted the spending patterns after a Herald investigation revealed more than 90 per cent of burglaries went unsolved last year.

The Labour Party is justifiably celebrating a victory on legislation to end "zero-hour contracts" even if it is victory on a fine point of law.

It was an ominous sign when Prime Minister John Key wandered into his weekly post-Cabinet press conference and announced, "I've got a bit of a head cold."

The longer a Government goes on, the more it needs to minimise the fronts on which it can be attacked, writes Audrey Young.

Punishments dished out by judges could soon be influenced by cutting-edge computer data modelling on offenders' behaviour.

For those who can't come up with their own dream, Labour has even prescribed one. This is what you dream of: a house, work, love and hope, Claire Trevett writes.

MPs personalising their messages to voters as they attempt to tap into underlying concerns for future.

Labour leader Andrew Little thinks it would a good idea for the Government to chip in and support the social media campaign to buy a sliver of land in Golden Bay.

Another British law change has just made it harder for Kiwis to live and work in the United Kingdom.

If I was a greedy, grasping, socialist, I would be totally underwhelmed by Labour leader Andrew Little promising free "post-school" education.

Labour leader Andrew Little has accused Prime Minister John Key of a lack of leadership and says he will still visit Te Tii Marae today.

A flagship anti-violence initiative that counts the Prime Minister as an ambassador is without funding for the coming year after Government support dried up.

If this was such a bad deal, how is it possible that a dozen countries all got sucked in and put their name to the sort of trouble the placard wavers are proclaiming?

Free tertiary education is a daring reversal of the thrust of educational and economic policy of the past 30 years.

Labour leader Andrew Little says any unfairness in Labour's scheme for three years of free tertiary education will only be short term.