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Ryan Bridge: Watch out Luxon, Winston's coming for you
Winston's driving a dump truck through Luxon's political strategy.
Luxon‘s strategy is to let his ministers do the talking.
He says his strength is picking his team.
And there's good reason, he has competent ministers; finance, justice, police, education, Chris Bishop, Todd Mclay on trade, Nicola Willis - she's taking control, taking the bull by the horns on the fuel crisis, which is his COVID.
But as a voter, this leaves a power of vacuum at the top.
Luxon has been cutting back media appearances. And when he does appear, performances the haven’t been great, by his own admission.
If Winston…
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