Ryan Bridge: National's week of law and order announcements

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Jul 3, 2025 · 2m · transcript

The award for most press releases and announcements on a single issue must got to National this week.

Law and Order was front and centre - announcements about everything from first responders to coward punches. It was an assault of announcements.

Now, announcements don't make streets safer. Announcements don't fix problems on their own.

This was a targeted campaign to reinforce the idea their tough on crime. That they're on the side of the victim.

Why are they doing this? Because it's one of the now minority of issues on which they outpoll Labour - from the last Ipsos survey.

So, they've been…