The weather should be politically neutral but sometimes you wonder . . . a fortnight ago National leader Chris Luxon came to Dunedin in the midst of teeming rain, while in the past eight days both Finance Minister Grant Robertson and Prime Minister Chris Hipkins have enjoyed glorious sunshine for their visits to the southern city.
For Mr Hipkins, his southern sojourn was his first trip here as PM although, as he told University of Otago students, he had travelled here when he was a student activist . . . and was reasonably sure that he had had a good time from what he could remember.
As an attempt by a politician to be relatable to his audience it was not a bad effort, but it hardly had a receptive but instinctively mistrustful audience rolling in the aisles.
