National, Labour shouldn’t rule out wartime-style ‘grand coalition’ to keep extremist fringe parties out of power – commentators
Newshub, 16 August, 2022 Right-leaning political commentator Matthew Hooton says New Zealand’s Opposition and Governing parties shouldn’t rule out a grand coalition to keep extremist fringe parties out of power as they gain public support. A grand coalition, when a country’s two major parties join forces to form a Government, has only happened twice in New Zealand’s history – the most recent during the Great Depression and before that World War I. Now, with the emergence of Hannah Tamaki’s Vision NZ, Matt…