Her number one reason for stepping down is the scrutiny her family has been facing recently. Next, her view that as she's been working for the Greens for 15 years, the best thing she can do now in the lead-up is to step aside from the co-leadership, and get the press off their backs. She will retire from parliament after the elections, and is off the GP list. That's a really big price to pay.
Here is the newshub poll data, also the leaked UMR poll data has Labour on 36%, National on 43%, this is more like it!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=11901065
Bill says he's not worried.