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Mike Hosking: Delivery and confidence - that's what we want from governments
I think we got enough out of Nicola Willis on the programme Friday to know that today, cabinet’s gonna sign off this money for Pharmac to solve the cancer problem.
The big outworking of this is - I hope they've learned their lesson.
This government has a couple of problems. The biggest one is the mess they inherited. We are going to spend at least the next year deep in it.
Two years of economic misery is a lot to ask of an electorate, and it's a lot to expect of a government to rectify.
Even on a good day - with plenty of intent and hard work - voters get grumpy with whoever’s in charge…
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