Christopher Luxon steps up to the microphone just absolutely full of ambition and aspiration, according to his speech notes.
He comes freshly anointed in the weekend paper as even better than John Key, tell you what. Never mind that the guy who wrote it is a crashing mediocrity and angling for a slot as a National Party candidate, when you're hot you're hot.
We’ve got them on the run, he tells the party. Clearly things have moved on and up because if poor old Pop-Up Leader had tried that line they might well have taken it as their panto cue to chorus back Oh no we haven't.
