Thomas Coughlan: NZ Herald political editor on the new polls showing National's taken a dip in popularity - Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

Two starkly different outcomes from the latest poll numbers.

The latest RNZ Reid Research poll - out this morning - has the right bloc on 46.4, behind the left bloc on 50.3.

But the latest 1 News Verian poll - released last night - has the right bloc on 50-percent, well ahead of the left bloc on 45.

NZ Herald political editor Thomas Coughlan unpacked the implications of what these results showed.

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