Bishop’s next big challenge – the Government isn’t calling it a “U-turn” – is what to do about the Government’s Roads of National Significance (RoNS) programme. The 17 roads, promised on the 2023 campaign, were estimated by National to cost just $17.3 billion, with construction to begin this decade. The report also shone light on how Labour, which has pledged to restore the old regime, hasn’t any plan to pay for it. Photo / Evie ThorneMost of Labour’s MPs know restoring the old regime will be expensive, very few have an idea of how expensive it would be. Any big changes will hurt the party’s relationship with its base, but restoring the old regime as it was doesn’t seem politically possible.

Source: New Zealand Herald February 27, 2026 20:42 UTC