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Prime Minister's Electoral Messaging

2 items · 2 aliases · peaked week of 10 May 2026 · first seen 18 May 2026

The podcast discusses trade tensions over potential US lamb tariffs, the government's stance on climate litigation affecting business investment, and the Prime Minister's hardline political messaging ahead of the election, while also touching on dairy market forecasts, red meat出口

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  • Oh, you're unbelievable. No, look, I don't comment on polls, as you know. Um, but you know, I've tried to be very clear at the beginning of the year to say, look, we're having election November 7. Uh if you really want uh centre-right government, you've got a two ticks blue. I'll make that case all year long as we go into the election. Uh I've already said who I will and won't work with. Um, I can't work with Labour. They created this ungodly mess, they don't deliver anything, they don't get things done. I just want to tax more and borrow more pretty much the same with the greens that are out uh into party Māori and whatever other independent um parties that we've seen form in the last week. Uh I'm not working with them either.
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the-country Government / N-A

critically dismissive of opposition parties

The Country Full Show: Wednesday, May 13, 2026
13 May
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