What will Clark do?

Audrey Young looks at the options for Helen Clark.  She notes that she has never before demoted Ministers during a parliamentary term.

Her options range from minimal change with Laban from outside to inside Cabinet and Street and Jones to outside to a full reshuffle with major portfolios exchanged.

Audrey does a hot and not list, being:

HOT

• Cunliffe
• Cosgrove
• Mahuta (being somewhat generous here I would say)
• Parker ( more impressed if he actually came out with some policy)
• Laban
• Street
• Jones
• Hughes
• Chauvel

NOT

• Burton
• O’Connor
• Barker
• Samuels

I would add Hodgson and Cullen to NOT. Both capable but both unpopular in their current portfolios.