Latest poll out: Labour v National

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Yes.   And governments never get credit for disasters and failures that they have avoided.   But I think by election time plenty of voters will recognise the extraordinary success of Labour in getting us through three years of pandemic with fewer casualties than anywhere else in the world.

And yet polling numbers suggest the opposite.
Labour has had a 10% reduction in support since last election and not a lot on the horizon that would stop that fall.

any seasoned politician will tell you it's only the vote on the day that counts.  One less than favourable result isn't exactly the kind of cataclysmic collapse that National suffered - it's a non-event...