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Liam Hehir: Lawyer and political commentator on PM's interest in a MMP referendum · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Right, let's come home. Luckson's got himself into a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a squabble again with his coalition partners. This is
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  Speaker 1: what he said to Carrie Woodham yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think we should have definitely referend him on
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  Speaker 2: the four year term, and I'm open for saying whichould
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  Speaker 2: we send it back out to New Zealand and say
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  Speaker 2: they still supported for them. Would you do that if
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  Speaker 2: you're Prime minister next year? Yeah, I think I would.
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  Speaker 1: Now, his coalition partner Winston Peters is calling him desperate.
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  Speaker 2: Point is what did the Prime Minister of all people say,
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  Speaker 2: at this close to an election, For goodness sake, I
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  Speaker 2: kind of think that the Poles aren't looking good for
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  Speaker 2: the Prime Minister and there's this sense of desperation. That's
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  Speaker 2: the reality of it all.
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  Speaker 1: Liam here, lawyer and political commentator with me. Liam, good morning,
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  Speaker 1: good morning. What's your take here?
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  Speaker 3: Well, there's two things this could be. It could be
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  Speaker 3: just a straightforward moment of el discipline or yes, so
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  Speaker 3: to speak, or it could be a three dimensional chess.
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  Speaker 3: The arguments for three dimensional chess would be that it's
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  Speaker 3: a deliberate wedge provocation to his coalition partners, who is
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  Speaker 3: obviously frustrated with and that he he's done it to
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  Speaker 3: remind them.
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  Speaker 4: Of how to say the National is a senior partner
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  Speaker 4: and perhaps a single of voters that a stronger National
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  Speaker 4: Party means that you don't have to deal with people
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  Speaker 4: like Uzell Ferson at comfortably sort of weakening that the
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  Speaker 4: main seam to right party. But I think it's more
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  Speaker 4: likely to be an error or a genuine gas because
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  Speaker 4: the fact of the matter is that in the immediate
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  Speaker 4: aftermath he had a national MP's unsure, no one was
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  Speaker 4: really able to say whether this was an announcement or
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  Speaker 4: a policy or just a view, and that makes it
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  Speaker 4: more likely that this wasn't pre planned, it wasn't briefed.
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  Speaker 4: There was something that just happened off the cuff and
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  Speaker 4: then grew up to something much larger than Lucks had
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  Speaker 4: probably wanted it to be.
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  Speaker 1: There is well or did he? I mean, that's the question.
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  Speaker 1: Is it genius or is it a blunder. That's what
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  Speaker 1: everyone's going to be debating today because on one hand,
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  Speaker 1: we are talking about that, but we're talking about Luxon
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  Speaker 1: and at least he's doing something, you know, or saying something.
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  Speaker 1: But on the other hand, it's never going to happen,
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  Speaker 1: so why even raise it. If you're the prime minister
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  Speaker 1: and you can't get what you want, what's the point
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  Speaker 1: of being prime minister?
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  Speaker 3: You know? Yeah, And that's the latter one that sort
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  Speaker 3: of makes it more of a blender or an error
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  Speaker 3: in my view. Look at you can always say that
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  Speaker 3: you know, no publicity is bad publicity. But when you
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  Speaker 3: say things that open up open yourself up for criticism,
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  Speaker 3: hoping yourself up for looking like your party provided provoke
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  Speaker 3: your culition partner who're not getting all well worth, the
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  Speaker 3: costs probably outweigh any benefit.
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  Speaker 1: I think leaam here, political commentator and lawyer.
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