
New-look Nats: Former lobbyist set to fill key role in Team Muller
Former lobbyist said to be lined up to become National's new chief of staff.
Former lobbyist said to be lined up to become National's new chief of staff.
Sometimes a hat is just hat. Other times it's a powerful symbol, writes Damien Venuto.
Muller's challenge took three days to execute, but was weeks in the making.
Comment: The Nats lost their nerve, and Simon Bridges and Paula Bennett are gone.
COMMENT: Todd Muller and Simon Bridges facing off at high noon.
Todd Muller faces challenge ahead while Simon Bridges ponders his future.
Simon Bridges did not understand strategy, Winston Peters said.
COMMENT: The best Todd Muller can hope for at this election is to lose well.
COMMENT: Judith Collins' time may yet come, writes Audrey Young.
'It's a momentous day for National,' the party's new leader said this morning.
"You've had Jacinda on television and radio dominating it for six or seven weeks."
As Bridges and Muller go head-to-head, Collins is only interested in one thing.
A second disastrous poll for National as MPs prepare to vote on leadership at noon
Comment: Either Simon Bridges hasn't been attending lessons or he has a lousy teacher.
Editorial: 'Politics offers few favours for potential and talent when time isn't right'.
COMMENT: Simon Bridges tried so hard, but the more he tried the worse it got.
Todd Muller is no Jacinda Ardern, writes political editor Audrey Young.
The second poll in a week comes as Opposition leader prepares for Todd Muller challenge.
Muller and Bridges hitting the phones to try to secure colleagues' votes.
National Party MP Todd Muller says current leader Simon Bridges has a 'bloody tough job'.
COMMENT: The same people who want him gone put him in. So they have to own a bit of this.
COMMENT: Can National take the risk of an untested new leader just before an election?
Todd Muller told the caucus yesterday that the party could not win under Simon Bridges.
COMMENT: What needs to happen for National to win the election.
Northland MP Matt King dismisses social distancing rules, says NZ not 'Nazi Germany'.
Comment: The pair who plan to take on Simon Bridges complement each other on paper.
Judith Collins: 'I am not part of anything that is going on'.
Simon Bridges takes a Covid-19 strategy to his challengers: go hard, go early. Eliminate.
COMMENT: They're panic-stricken, fearful of their personal plight, and not the party's.
National leader Simon Bridges has made an embarrassing gaffe on live radio.