Two disastrous polls within a week and Simon Bridges is gone as National Leader. Benedict Collins reveals that ‘National MPs had been getting increasingly annoyed in lockdown’ that internal polling hadn’t been shared. After the 1 News Colmar Brunton poll, Editor Jessica Mutch-McKay added that it was National’s ‘…lowest number since 2003’. Finally, we look back to when Simon Bridges took over the top job just over two years ago.

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