For those on the right of the political spectrum, the Curia/TU poll results will provoke considerable bewilderment. Everything in their world is telling them that this government is on a hiding to nothing in 2023.

You need at least a Silver membership plan to access Insight articles.

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...