Almost 100,000 Kiwis have had personal details accidentally released under National, says Labour leader.

Cabinet Minister and Napier MP Chris Tremain has confirmed that he will stand down from Parliament next year.

A winter of discontent in heartland National Party territory has nothing to do with the GCSB bill, as John Key likes to point out

Conference 2013 was meant to be the conference of good ideas. Political editor Audrey Young looks at whether it delivered.

Bill English's speech provided a vital clue as to how National will fight next year's election. It will go relentlessly on the offensive across all fronts, writes John Armstrong.

Senior Government ministers Bill English and Steven Joyce say National Party members will be asked for policy ideas at the party conference in Nelson this weekend to take into next year's election.

If Labour leader David Shearer wants a tip from a winner, former Prime Minister Helen Clark says her advice is always to "be yourself".

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters said his concerns about the bill had widened beyond the four he specified in his first reading.

Matt McCarten says John Key must feel like he's in a B-grade horror movie where his prom dates keep coming to gruesome demises.

Prime Minister John Key's decision to suddenly back Auckland on big infrastructure investments wasn't simply designed to steal a march on his Labour opponents.

I guess Maggie Barry's thoughts have turned to composing her bucket list, writes Brian Rudman. And leaving messages on her boss' phone, pleading for another u-turn.

It's been said you were a Labour Party supporter and campaigned for them. So why the switch?

Green Party co-leader Russel Norman has all but shut the door on working with National after the next election.

A political strategist who has trained National Party MPs says the Ports of Auckland colluded with right wing bloggers to undermine industrial action against the Ports of Auckland.

Leaked documents written by a political strategist who has trained National MPs set out a vision for taking the party to the right of the political spectrum.

The Government is again accused of interfering to appoint a 'mate' to a top public sector job.

National is facing the "notoriously difficult" task of winning a third term against an Opposition increasingly dragged to the "far left" by the Greens, says Key

National Party members are pushing for a new "waka-jumping" law to force rogue list MPs out of Parliament.

The Accident Compensation Corporation's Earners and Work Accounts are now fully funded ACC Minister Judith Collins has told National Party members at their Northern Regional Conference today.

Over the next 18 months, expect to see Key, and David Shearer, too, hovering outside Peters' office, bottle of Scotch in hand, writes Toby Manhire.

Property developers who "sit and wait" for land values to increase have been sent a clear signal that the Government will act to bring more housing into the market.

John Armstrong writes: "One of the reasons why Governments slowly decay and die is that the longer they are in office the more prone they become to ugly pragmatism and compromise of principle."

John Key says it is possible the Government could get close to a surplus in the coming financial year - one year earlier than officially predicted in yesterday's Budget.

John Key is under absolutely no illusions about the difficulty he faces in securing a third victory at next year's election, writes John Armstrong.