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The National Party has published the terms of reference for the review of its drastic electoral defeat.
The review will examine various aspects of the loss, including the entire three-year period preceding it, the performance of the caucus, and the selection of party candidates.
The “strategy, narrative and execution” of the electoral campaign will also be the subject of attention.
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National is reviewing the game’s devastating loss.
Party leader Judith Collins has been promising a review since the defeat, in which her party had 23 fewer MPs than in 2017 and won just over half the votes of her Labor rival.
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The review will be conducted by a five-person panel chaired by former NZTA board member Mark Darrow, a professional director with a history of party involvement.
Former National Party Chair Judy Kirk is on the review panel, along with former National MP and Minister Kate Wilkinson, professional director and businesswoman June McCabe, and young billionaire Jamie Beaton, director of an education consulting firm.
Party chairman Peter Goodfellow, who was re-elected over the weekend at the party’s annual general meeting, announced the terms of reference for the review without notice Monday night.
Goodfellow said that 2020, a year with three different national leaders, had been difficult for the party.
“There is no doubt that 2020 was a difficult year for the National Party, and it would be foolish not to comprehensively review all aspects of our approach to the campaign and our work during the last legislature. Our party membership rightly expects this and we will deliver, ”Goodfellow said.
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Peter Goodfellow, Chairman of the National Party.
“We are committed to using the results of the review to help shape this next term, to carry out the work and changes necessary to position the party for the future, and to ensure that these enhancements are implemented by the 2023 campaign. per se”.
The terms of the review cover four broad areas: “Preparations over the three-year period by all elements of the party, including the selection of candidates and the performance of the caucus; the electoral campaign, including the political environment, strategy, narrative and execution; the internal, social and economic strategic challenges and opportunities facing the National Party in the next term; and recommendations for improvement for the next three years and the 2023 campaign “.
Goodfellow said the review panel would focus on areas that the party could change on its own.
“The review panel is asked to focus on the areas over which the party has or could have control and where it can effect positive change.”
This is despite his own comments over the weekend, when he blamed part of the loss on the prime minister’s “televangelistic” Covid-19 reports and the media.
Goodfellow said the panel was a good mix of people who knew the party well but were not involved in the campaign itself.
Submissions close on December 21 with a preliminary report to be submitted early in the new year.
The party has not committed to releasing a full version of the report.
