Echo Chamber: The National Party in a state of emergency

Echo Chamber: The National Party in a state of emergency

The coalition careens from a confidence vote to a trade agreement to a weight loss comment.  National MPs returned to parliament this week, after a fortnight’s recess, as a storm brewed in Wellington, both figuratively and literally. Christopher Luxon summed the issues up as a handful of MPs “moaning” about his leadership and media set on turning caucus issues into a “soap opera”. Of course, at the heart of the issue was weeks of humdrum polling…