WOULD THE REAL Labour Party please stand up. Right now, I’m looking at four Labour Parties, each one quite startlingly different from – if not actually competing with – the others. The key question, therefore, is: Will the ideas and actions of each of these divergent parties enhance or diminish the chances of “Brand Labour” winning the 2023 general election?

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Known principally for his political commentaries in The Dominion Post, The ODT, The Press and the late, lamented Independent, and for "No Left Turn", his 2007 history of the Left/Right struggle in New...