EDITORIAL
If "be careful what you wish for" is a tired cliche, then National Party leader Todd Muller must have invigorated it this week.
His successful tilt at the helm of New Zealand's centre-right party on May 22 has handed him a seemingly bottomless poisoned chalice.
As the scandal around the leaked confidential Covid patient details claimed the careers of former party leader Michelle Boag and Southland MP Hamish Walker, Muller may have wondered why he put his hand up.