Andrew Dickens: Should Jacinda Ardern come home and front the Covid inquiry?

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Jul 7, 2025 · 1m · transcript

Question: should Jacinda Ardern come home and appear before the Royal Commission into our Covid response? I think she should.

I could understand though if she doesn't. Because just as she became the symbol of our successful response to the pandemic, which we rewarded with a supermajority in Labour's second term, she also then became the symbol of everything that we did wrong.

And there's a significant number of people who have been weaponised against the former Prime Minister because of the things they resent, and they want a holding to account. They want a Nuremberg trial, as you heard from…