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Week of 8 Jun 2026
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Labour Caucus Unity

7 items · 4 aliases · peaked week of 26 Apr 2026 · first seen 29 Apr 2026

Labour Party outlines its post-election strategy, emphasizing a slow, member-informed policy development process to counter National's perceived neglect of everyday Kiwis and establish a renewed, inclusive vision for governance by 2026.

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

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  • Or he'll be challenged to be saying, look, you've done it before, why not do it again? Yeah. So it was interesting in Parliament this afternoon because certainly Christopher Luxon looked much more relaxed and rightly so, fair enough. But Labour's Chris Hipkins put to him an interesting theory. Now, to continue as Prime Minister, he has to have the majority of the House and make that declaration to the Governor-General. Now... Now, the thing is, without knowing the size of the majority who voted for him, it's virtually impossible to know how many voted against him with the vote being a secret ballot. So you don't know the numbers. But Luxon talked in the House about a unanimous vote, which you'd have to say in the circumstances is a little doubtful, but we'll never know.
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resilient and committed to collective renewal

Release: Labour sets sights on 2026
28 Apr
hdpa-drive Government / N-A

a collective commitment to avoid leadership change

Barry Soper: Newstalk ZB senior political correspondent on the conclusion of the Luxon saga
21 Apr
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