Andrew Dickens: The cautious political answer Christopher Luxon gave on privatisation

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Jan 30, 2025 · 2m · transcript

So the word of the week was privatisation.

It became a debate because David Seymour said we should do it now in his state of the nation speech on Monday.

So obviously the media asked the Prime Minister want he thinks of the junior coalition partner’s thoughts.

And Christopher Luxon vacillated, he gave the cautious political answer trying not to upset anyone.

It's something we might look at, but not without a mandate, so we might campaign on it in 2 years time. So it won’t happen for two years, or maybe more, so don’t worry about. We’re cool.

It was an answer so convoluted that obviously the…