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Raining Cheshire Cats

In a ninth-floor office in a Wellington building a man in a suit sits behind a desk. He has a furrowed brow. He is surrounded by buckets. There is water dripping from the ceiling. Plonk. Plonk. Plonk. He is in a leaky building.

As anyone who has ever had a leaking roof knows, identifying the source of the leak is a tricky business. Identifying whoever leaked what are claimed to be details of Labour’s tax plans to Opposition deputy leader Nicola Willis might prove even trickier. She almost managed not to look like the Cheshire Cat when announcing what bounty had dropped into her bucket.

As leaks go, it wasn’t

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