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Speaker 1: Right, Barry, soop our seeing your political correspondence with us.

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Speaker 2: Hey Barry, good afternoon.

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Speaker 1: So Starmer is the new Prime Minister of the UK

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Speaker 1: and Luxem meets him pretty early next week.

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Speaker 2: Well, yes, he is likely to meet him next week.

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Speaker 2: It was interesting just before Richie Sunac conceded defeat, Luxon

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Speaker 2: was playing it very careful down on Ashburton.

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Speaker 3: It's up to the UK people to decide who they

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Speaker 3: elect as their leaders and their government. My job as

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Speaker 3: New Zealand Prime Minister is to work with every leader

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Speaker 3: that our partner countries delivered. I'm very confident we'll have

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Speaker 3: a very good relationship with whichever leader the UK people decide.

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Speaker 3: My job is to make sure I've got good relationships

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Speaker 3: with all leaders.

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Speaker 2: So he'll no doubt bump into Joe Biden at the

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Speaker 2: NATO seventy fifth summit next week in Washington, DC, although

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Speaker 2: Biden probably won't know it, but he is the new

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Speaker 2: Zealand Prime Minister. Keirs Starmer will have a formal meeting

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Speaker 2: with Biden and only the first month if you look

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Speaker 2: at the schedule for Starmer is pretty full on. I

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Speaker 2: mean he'll only be sworn in. I would imagine you

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Speaker 2: know over the next twenty four hours if that, But

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Speaker 2: so certainly there's a lot of diplomatic meetings, the ones

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Speaker 2: with Joe Biden. He will basically see the French prime

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Speaker 2: of French President Emmanuel Macron, although Macron was very much

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Speaker 2: under threat himself. He's hosting at Blenham Palace near Oxford

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Speaker 2: European Political Community meeting that Macron will be at, so

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Speaker 2: too will Germany's Chancellor. He'll be there as well. So,

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Speaker 2: you know, for a man who has just become Prime minister,

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Speaker 2: it's pretty heavy hitting stuff for him. Interesting background he's got,

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Speaker 2: isn't he. I mean, he was a Marxist when he

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Speaker 2: was younger, he was a lawyer, but he came from

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Speaker 2: a very working class family. His mother was a nurse.

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Speaker 2: His father worked in a factory, and the father always

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Speaker 2: felt that he was locked down on because he worked

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Speaker 2: in a factory. That's probably why he was such a

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Speaker 2: lefty in his younger days. He's an atheist, an interesting character.

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Speaker 1: But married to a woman who was Jewish and observes

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Speaker 1: the faith.

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Speaker 2: By the looks of thing, observes the faith. Yes, and

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Speaker 2: you know, for the first time now in fourteen years,

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Speaker 2: we're going to see a change of government. Let's only

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Speaker 2: hope that the Labor Party is better than the one

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Speaker 2: that we saw here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the last expression that we had to go through. Yeah, listen,

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Speaker 1: speaking of the Labor Party, what do you make of

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Speaker 1: their listening exercise trying to figure out what went wrong

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Speaker 1: in Auckland.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, I think most Aucklanders could tell Labor

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Speaker 2: what went wrong here, and that was that they said

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Speaker 2: he was locked down long, much longer than it should

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Speaker 2: have been during the COVID outbreak.

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Speaker 1: There was also the crime after wards. Remember I mean

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Speaker 1: we were hassling them about the crime and doing something

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Speaker 1: about the crime. We had Sandrigham Dairy on a stab

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Speaker 1: to death, and meanwhile Jinny Anderson's telling us crime is

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Speaker 1: not a problem, we're just reporting more of it.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly right. And of course, essentially I think really

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Speaker 2: he was coming this, Chris Hipkins was coming at it

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Speaker 2: from a very difficult perspective because he's a Willington MP,

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Speaker 2: and he talked a lot when he was here for

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Speaker 2: the past with his MPs, talked a lot about visiting

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Speaker 2: the city during the COVID lockdown. He was the COVID

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Speaker 2: minister as well, so you know, really, Labour's got a

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Speaker 2: lot of work to do in the city. When you

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Speaker 2: look at the green of the green wave, I was

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Speaker 2: going to say, well Aukland Central was the only one

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Speaker 2: that the green and blue wave totally a blue wave.

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Speaker 2: When you look at some of those seats that traditionally

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Speaker 2: like Roscall it was very much labor then changed. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's been an interesting time here in this city. And

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Speaker 2: no doubt, hopefully the Labor MPISA was thirty out of

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Speaker 2: the thirty four of them that visited here over the

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Speaker 2: past two and a half days. When they go back

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Speaker 2: to Wellington, hopefully they have a lot to reflect on

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Speaker 2: because I remember being here during that lockdown and just

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Speaker 2: In Dern hadn't even visited her own electorate.

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Speaker 1: Okay, enough enough you started, you were just starting up there,

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Speaker 1: you go, Hey, how good is it? The first first

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Speaker 1: lot of the cancer drugs because of David Simol's big

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Speaker 1: money announcement.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's great. Key Truder is the obviously going

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Speaker 2: to be one of the early ones as well as

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Speaker 2: op Devo for kidney cancer, but Truder for the five

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Speaker 2: cancer conditions. And I know, you know, I had a

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Speaker 2: personal friend that spent thousands and thousands and thousands of

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Speaker 2: dollars dollars buying the drug because Farmac wasn't financing it,

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Speaker 2: and many people were in that situation. So you know

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Speaker 2: it's great to see that by October, Key Truder will

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Speaker 2: probably be funded by Farmac, and you know, you'd have

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Speaker 2: to say that, okay, the list that finally National came

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Speaker 2: up with or presented to Farmac at being carried out

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Speaker 2: cancer patients will be I think very thankful for the

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Speaker 2: six hundred odd million that the government, So.

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Speaker 1: I would say, so, yeah, thank you, Verry, really appreciate

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Speaker 1: a Barry sopsing your political corresponding, we'll get you back

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Speaker 1: quarter pass sex rap the political week that was.

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