Full Show Podcast: 06 July 2026
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What are the key points of National's trade election policy?
no fluff just facts and fierce debate the mike hosking breakfast with avida retirement communities life your way news talks at b morning and welcome today more trade new countries new deals another bank another economic upgrade for new zealand to anchor the prime minister's in john hart on the abs the lads in the commentary box jeff mason does the us of a today murray olds is in australia William Fortuit, 7 past 6. Welcome to the week. Now, Morgan McSweeney, you may remember, was one of Keir Starmer's four guys in the Mandelson scandal. He ran the Labour Party's 2024 campaign. That saw Labour land a comparatively small amount of the vote, 37%, in exactly the right place, though, to give them a stonking great majority near 14 years of Tory rule.
Ended badly for McSweeney. It's ending badly for Starmer, of course, and a bloke who never got elected by Britain is going to run the place in a few weeks, theoretically, for the next three years. Now, I tell you all this because McSweeney's never spoken before until now. And what he says is fascinating. He claims the party didn't prepare properly for power, didn't think about how the world had changed since they were last in government, didn't talk about it enough, didn't plan. That's why Starmer was such a disaster. What makes it fascinating for us is, one, it was Starmer and Labour that Chris Hipkins, you might remember, visited in Liverpool at their conference to get some tips. And two, it is Hipkins and Labour, according to Trevor Mallard, former MP and Speaker who ended up at the Featherston Book Fair recently, telling exactly the same story about his party.
So do we have a theme or a trait?
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Are Labour groupings essentially lazy or blind or arrogant or a combination of all three? Labour New Zealand 2017 set a record in working groups, you might remember, because they hadn't prepared for government. Nine years they had. Labour in Britain had 14 years. Perhaps as interesting as Peter Dunn's latest column in Newsroom. where he reports that the recent Labour Congress was well staged but lacked anything new. Subsidies for apprenticeships, worthy but dull, he said, reminds voters of the economic mess Labour last got us into. So does Labour movement lack imagination? The two, of course, I guess, may be coincidental, but they might not be. Is Labour about simply waiting for the other lot to lose?
At their heart, they're not actually up for a bit of hard work and prep. New Zealand Labour were jettisoned for a calamitous record. British Labour would be on the verge of the same thing if they didn't have five-year terms. McSweeney, Mallard and Dunn all tell the same story. If you're a potential Labour supporter here, surely that story is worrying, if not frightening.
How did the Prime Minister review the recent Wellington trip?
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In Britain, Nigel Farage yet again facing questions as to where he gets his money from. His mate Posh George is allegedly handing over staff and cash to help the cause, so denials are flying.
He's an old friend of Nigel's and he supported him in the past before Nigel was even a Member of Parliament. He has no formal role within reform, so there's nothing to see here.
Well, the government are not impressed.
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What this shows is that a few very wealthy people have Nigel Farage in their pocket. And they've been paying for things for, it seems, a very long period of time before he became an MP, which may indeed have actually influenced his policy position. Yes, complaints have been officially laid to the investigations on.
We've reported it to the commissioner so he can have a look into it.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the key points of National's trade election policy?
0:00–1:29
2
What warnings did the U.S. give regarding a potential Russian attack on Poland?
1:29–2:30
3
How did the Prime Minister review the recent Wellington trip?
2:30–3:30
4
What were the highlights of the All Blacks' first match?
3:30–4:26
5
What were the results of the Silverstone race?
4:26–5:19
6
How is the World Cup shaping up for New Zealand's performance?
5:19–5:59
7
What economic updates were discussed regarding consumer confidence?
5:59–7:05
8
What insights were shared about the upcoming Modi visit?
7:05–1:29:57
Speakers
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