The latest 1News/Colmar Brunton poll is out and National has eeked out a 2% improvement while Labour has shed 4%. Jacinda Ardern has shed some support as well:

Labour is on 49% support in today’s poll, with National lagging at 27%.

National leader [Judith] Collins and Labour Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern have both taken a dive in the preferred PM stakes.

Despite a significant 15% drop in support, Ardern remains miles ahead at 43%. Collins is languishing on 8%, down 4% on the previous poll in December.

Party support:
Labour Party: 49% (down 4%)
National Party: 27% (up 2%)
Green Party: 9% (up 1%)
ACT: 8%
New Zealand First: 2%
Maori Party: 2%
New Conservative: 1%
TOP – 1% (up 0.7%)
Don’t know: 5%
Refused: 4%
*Percentages do not add to 100 due to rounding.

1News

Clearly National are not yet foiling, but there is some hope showing as the government hits turbulent air.

That shows with Ardern shedding 15 points. No wonder she is looking like she’s sucked a lemon.

National should keep trying to make incremental gains, two percent here and two percent there.

As the Government advances its radical agenda it is going to find life getting more and more difficult, compounded with a distinct lack of progress on the things that actually matter.

Labour is quite simply failing to deliver and they haven’t got anyone to blame for that anymore.

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