Jane Clifton has a piece on the Wellington Central race in this week’s Listener.  As is the way with their website, the full story is not up yet. It is a nicely crafted piece, with Jane giving a pretty accurate depiction of the flavour of the seat ( ” a seat of bewildering contradictions”). It is nice to be picked by Jane as the favourite for the seat, but I am taking nothing for granted. The story does show that Stephen and I have something common. The story of him door-knocking Heather Simpson is re-told, with her suggesting he needed to up his game. It would be a safe bet that the withering look Stephen will have received that day is one I have some familiarity with after three and half years of working with Heather. It does tend to put you in your place!