Mother of all resets

Cue the amber flashing lights and the warning honks, synch up the stop-go paddles – the Government is about to execute a few telling U-turns.

It would probably prefer to call them resets. Or at least reset resets. But it’s about time.

Though Labour’s slump in the last two published polls leaves it at a commanding 40% plus, with chief rival National still floundering, it’s not a comfy trend. Labour’s lost vote isn’t going to its potential allies.

The Greens are stable but not fattening, and though tentatively renascent, at well below 5%, New Zealand First is neither help nor menace to anyone. That