It Wasn't Me
Christopher Luxon distances himself, but here comes Erica.
Can you hear the drums, Christopher? Erica is coming.
She’s relatively competent by the standards of the coalition. She can answer questions somewhat directly without endless waffle, and she’s got the Ardern hairstyle, if not the empathy.
It doesn’t sound like much, the barest of qualifications for an MP, and yet, given the bloke in charge, the jungle drums are beating for her to take the leadership.
Even the party loyalists at ZB are writing about Stanford as a “possible replacement for Luxon”.
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