This one might just be the poll that flips the script. National’s finally seeing results after a long, flat year, Labour’s had a bump too, and the left… well, that’s another story altogether. The Greens face-plant, Te Pāti Māori collapses to 1 per cent, and voters look like they’ve simply walked away.

We dig into why this shift matters, how economic optimism is creeping back in, and why Christopher Luxon suddenly has a bit more spring in his step. Duncan’s blunt about the mess inside Te Pāti Māori, and pollster David Farrar joins us to make sense of the numbers, the mood, and what this might mean heading into next year.

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