With special votes still being counted, the interregnum provides time for the country’s political parties to reflect on their election performance.  For Labour, in particular, that is proving to be a painful experience.  

Hipkins emerged from his party’s caucus meeting last Tuesday saying, “We’ll spend plenty of time digesting the result and understanding that but it's clear from the end of 2021, we saw our support numbers drop quite significantly and nothing that we did in the two years that followed really rebuilt those numbers.” 

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