Podcast: Free to Disagree: Why hasn’t New Zealand warmed to its prime minister?
Dr Oliver Hartwich
6 November, 2026
Christopher Luxon goes into Saturday’s election as a prime minister few voters ever took to. Oliver and Damien look at why, and whether he would stay leader even if National is returned.
They go on to Damien’s Tāmaki candidates’ debate and why party loyalty runs so deep, then to Berlin, where comments accidentally sent to journalists suggest the likely next mayor is too afraid to name figures linked to organised crime, and what it says about politics across the West. And with this the last episode before the election, they make their predictions for Saturday.