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Vance, Andrea,

Blue Blood : the inside story of the National Party in crisis / Andrea Vance. - Auckland, New Zealand : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022 - 304 pages ; 24 cm.

Beginning with the shock resignation of John Key, Blue Blood reveals the reasons behind one of the most dramatic falls in popularity in New Zealand's political history and tells the full story of how the National Party went to war with itself. Informed by campaign emails and internal party communications, and with commentary from key advisors, staffers, and past and current MPs, Andrea Vance sheds new light on the ministers and motivations that made headlines: negotiations with the kingmaker, high-profile resignations, secret recordings and text messages, allegations of bullying and harassment, and leaders gone rogue on the campaign trail. Blue Blood takes the reader inside the rooms where fatal decisions were made, asks what values lie at the heart of a modern-day National Party, and questions who else might be waiting in the wings.

ISBN: 9781775542155 1775542157

Subjects--Corporate Names:
New Zealand National Party.
New Zealand. Parliament Elections, --2017.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Political campaigns--New Zealand.
Politicians--New Zealand.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
New Zealand--Politics and government--21st century.

LC Class. No.: JQ5892 / .V363 2022

Dewey Class. No.: 324.293