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But would you have a beer with them?

Forget KPI’s and opinion polls - the only measure of a pollie is their Beer-factor

4 October 2014

9:00 AM

4 October 2014

9:00 AM

Last month, New Zealand prime minister John Key won a thumping election victory. His National party was not only returned for a third term: it increased both its share of votes and number of seats, blitzed the Labour opposition by two votes to one and, for the first time since New Zealand’s Mixed Member Proportional voting system started in 1996, one party won an absolute majority of seats.

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