Ryan Bridge: No Chippy for Winston

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · May 26, 2025 · 2m · transcript

So, Winston has definitively ruled out working with Chris Hipkins.

Not Labour, but Hipkins.

He had of course already pretty much done this earlier in the year after his State of Nation address, in which called the Labour leadership a bunch of liars and unreformed losers.

But this is crystal clear now. He’s spoken to Thomas Coughlin at the Herald - it’s a firm no, thank you.

This is interesting for two reasons.

1) Winston is a political wizard and knows how to read the room and play the game. This is not a random outburst. This is a calculated decision based on the path he thinks will get New…