Tim Dower: These past few weeks were a demonstration

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Nov 2, 2023 · 2m

Special votes, as I'm sure you know, are usually good for the left and National has said it expects to lose one or two seats from the election night count.

If it was two, and even if the overhang goes, the maths is undeniable. It's a 120 seat Parliament, but that one-seat majority for the Nats and ACT is gone.

And we all know what that means.

I think Winston's petulant display in Wellington right after the election told us a lot about the way the new coalition is being drawn together.

My read of it, is that Mr Peters had been well and truly put in his place over the weekend.

I suspect the…