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Return of the Nats

It’s all about timing. Since he was first elected an MP last year, Christopher Luxon has been tipped as a National Party leader, but at some time far into the future, maybe.

The argument ran that he was a first-term MP and didn’t have the gritty experience in the arcane world of Parliament and the torrid dog-fighting

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