Ryan Bridge: Confidence is key in politics

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Oct 21, 2025 · 2m · transcript

It was always going to be a risky strategy but it's backfiring quite badly for Labour.

The two-year policy drought is over.

Then heavens have open.

And a flood, or more like a few rain drops, of policy.

It's gone haywire not just because Hipkins forgot his Health spokesperson was actually announcing a policy yesterday.

But because of the contents of that policy.

In a nutshell it’s about letting some independent group of experts decide on health funding.

And as I mentioned yesterday, a trend is now emerging.

Labour doesn’t trust itself to make wise choices. Or rather, it knows the electorate…