PremiumAnalysisAnalysis byThomas CoughlanPolitical Editor·Reset·27 Jun, 2026 03:55 AM9 mins to readThomas Coughlan, Political Editor at the New Zealand Herald, loves applying a political lens to people's stories and explaining the way things like transport and finance touch our lives. Labour Party finance spokeswoman Barbara Edmonds. Photo / Anna HeathLabour’s candidates didn’t think they’d begin their congress weekend retracing the tyre marks of disgraced National MP Jami-Lee Ross.And yet that’s what a handful of the party’s candidates did.
After a storm – the embodiment of what former Labour leader Sir Geoffrey Palmer once described as the “irredeemably
