Welcome to the rest's policies leading with me, Alistair Campbell, and me Rory Stewart.

And we're very, very lucky.

This is a credit to Alistair, who's brought on his friend, the Prime Minister in New Zealand,

right Honourable Chris Hipkins.

And Alistair, tell us a little bit about how we got this privilege.

How do we get here?

We're a mutual friend of ours, being Chris that is, called Darren Hughes.

I think he's one of your closest friends, and he was trying to get Jacinda for a while

while she was still Prime Minister, and then after she left.

And Chris, what's great about you doing this?

You're right in the middle of an election campaign.

So thank you very, very much for giving us some of your time.

It was fantastic to be able to talk to you.

We are.

We've got five and a half weeks to go until polling day.

It's a busy time over here in New Zealand, but it is great to be able to talk to you.

Well, it's great to see you.

Let's just kick off with the campaign, because that's where you are.

Now, Labour had an amazing success at the last election.

You know, you've absolutely run away.

And now you look at the opinion polls, and it's looking very, very tough for you.

You've been involved in a lot of campaigns.

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