Ryan Bridge: MPs need to stop doing stuff for social media likes

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Jun 29, 2026 · 2m · transcript

There's a perception out there that some of the younger MPs either don't know what they're doing in Parliament or are just doing stuff to get likes on social media.

I'm going to be so real right now with you – some of it's actually true.

Stuff is running a bunch of stories on Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke at the moment.

Newest one is about photos of her with the Minister for Women, Nicola Grigg. Come back to that one.

But what they've found is Maipi-Clarke boasting on social media she spent 65% of her time advocating for and visiting young people in prisons and OT facilities.

The only problem?…