Thomas Coughlan: NZ Herald Deputy Political Editor on the negative campaigning done by Labour and National

The 2023 election campaign is entering its final days. 

With just three days left Labour and National have both descended into negative campaigning as they scrap for every last vote. 

NZ Herald’s Deputy Political Editor, Thomas Coughlan, told Kerre Woodham that at the end of the campaign, they’ll tally the time they spent talking about each other versus the time they spent discussing their own policies. 

He thinks that relative to previous elections, they’ve been spending so much time obsessed with each other. 

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