Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson still has confidence in Labour for the 2023 election, despite Labour's loss in Hamilton West.
National's Tama Potaka beat out Labour candidate Georgie Dansey in the Hamilton West byelection, but Grant Robertson doesn't see this as an indicator for how the 2023 general election will go.
Grant Robertson says that the Hamilton West byelection is a different ballgame to the upcoming general election and National's win was just due to the specific circumstances around that.
"The result we saw on Saturday night was certainly not the result we're intending next year, nor the one that I think we'll get."
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