The soul searching begins on Tuesday for the drastically reduced Labour caucus which meets for the first time since it's humiliating defeat to National at the weekend.
First, they'll farewell their 21 colleagues who've lost their seats and then they'll start taking a long hard look at what went wrong.
It's likely Chris Hipkins' future will be on the agenda - will he stay or go?
Deputy political editor Craig McCulloch spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.
