Gordon Campbell: On Luxon’s Survival Chances, And The India FTA

Whenever Christopher Luxon drops a classically fatuous clanger or whenever the government has a bad poll – i.e. every week – the talk resumes that he is about to be rolled. This is unlikely for several reasons. For starters, there is no successor. Nicola Willis? Chris Bishop? Simeon Brown? Mark Mitchell? Those are not compelling options. Erica Stanford would probably have most appeal to non-National voters, but they won’t be the ones making the call. The National MP who looks like a future party leader – James Meagher – has no name recognition, and has yet to be tested under pressure.