Vernon Small: Labour may have tacked too close to National to spark voter ardour VERNON SMALLCHRIS SKELTON/STUFF Labour leader Andrew Little playing 'the same but different' with National on family policy. (Labour's slower debt repayment plan and National's lower debt target means Labour does have a little more to spend, however.) Labour's Best Start policy, based on a $60 a week payment per baby in their first year - is the only totally new concept. That while they have different ideologies at their core, those different world view have not taken them far enough to energise the voters. Little has been insisting all week that the people he meets around the traps tell a very different story; that they want change.

Source: Stuff July 12, 2017 17:09 UTC