Red-faced Government needs to bury first-day farce, fastSTACEY KIRK/STUFF Jacinda Ardern talks on her Melbourne Cup picks, and defending an early loss to National in the House. Kevin Stent National shadow leader of the House Simon Bridges plays hardball over Trevor Mallard's nomination for Speaker of the House at Parliament's opening. National MPs are still angry about the way post-election negotiations dumped them out of Government. But if Labour expected National to come back weakened and demoralised from the election loss, it has been given a big wake-up call. But it is a big morale boost for National's MPs.

Source: Stuff November 07, 2017 04:31 UTC