Mark Mitchell

I believe that both Barbara and Chris Hipkins had prior engagements, which they had to be at.

Were you there?

But it was a good showing, I thought.

Yeah, I wasn't right there.

Yep, I was there.

It was a good showing, and I think that's a mark of respect in the length of time that Judith had served and the breadth of areas that she'd covered in her career.

So it was a good showing from all parties.

We'll be doing everything we can to win that seat, and Willow Jean Prime now has a really strong chance of taking that out.

And that's important to me.

I believe that Labour is a strong representative of Māori and the way forward is that Māori and Pākehā need to work together for solutions.

And so having strong, I'm really proud of all of our candidates in those

I got to meet them all just last weekend, and we're looking forward to working incredibly hard to taking... No, I'm sure you are.

I would say that if they're polling at roughly, what is it, 3% or 4%, and that means another 3% or 4% for Labour, then we're happy to take that.

Well, we're working for every single day to do that and we have some excellent candidates in all of those seats to be able to do that.

Some of the strongest candidates I've seen in a long time.

He's an incredibly hard worker, Willie, and I have to say, you know, while...

Well, I know he's not your top guy, Mike.

Oh, no, I like Willie.

It was interesting that the Treaty of Waitangi was not in it at all, if that's like sort of a founding doctrine.

Wrong?