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Tangi Utikere Interview

2 items · 2 aliases · first seen 15 Jun 2026

A reddit post critiques National Party's attack on Labour's public transport fare capping plan, referencing Tangi Utikere's interview and James Meager's perceived moderate leadership style.

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  • I think part of his job is to put the government's talking points up there as well, right? Because Labour wants to be the government, they should be able to answer what the actual government is accusing them of. And I think that's what we're not seeing here in the interview, is of course Jack is going to do that. Doesn't necessarily mean that he believes it or whatever we have seen him do the very same thing, like last week against Nicola with probably one of the best sound bites I've ever heard. You know, here's what you said years ago uh about child poverty, and now you're cutting even more. Has your tolerance for child poverty changed? One of the best questions I've ever heard. Um we don't like it when it's deployed against one of our teams, but one of the the real things that we want here is we want our team to do well, and I don't I don't think he's done a fantastic job here.
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big-hairy-news Centre-left

critical scrutiny of transport spokesperson's credibility

#BHN Nats on the attack | Tangi Utikere trainwreck interview | James Meager, an old-school Nat?
15 Jun
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