My bias in favour of Act is well-known but at the risk of being accused of sycophancy, I am still going to highlight the performance of David Seymour and ACT over the previous week because it is so incredibly rare for a party to unapologetically stand for classical liberal principles in New Zealand at the same time as polling 10 to 14% poll after poll for as long as Act has done.

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Stephen Berry is a former Act candidate and Auckland Mayoral candidate. The libertarian political commentator retired as a politician in July 2020 and now hosts the Mr Berry Mr Berry Show on Youtube.