Gould resigned from the Labout Party and returned to NZ, when Bliar became PM.
Unfortunately, the prospect of even a brief spell with the Tories in power would be unthinkable - even granted the deeply corrupt rogues and vagabonds of NuLab(c). The conventional wisdom is that the Tories will walk the next election, but ah hae ma doots. In the end, we're still not quite a nation of turkeys prepared to vote for Christmas to be kept on the calendar, I think, but the more pressure put on NuLab(c), the better.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/03/new-labour-new-zealand