The glasses clink in the coalition bunker

In this week’s episode of Newsroom’s weekly politics podcast, we ask who needs evidence for policies, we talk ferries and pull apart the latest polls

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This week's recommendations:

Marc – A telling article from the US on Heatmap about that country’s troubles building one big power line:

Laura  – An Associated Press backgrounder on what led to thousands storming Kenya’s Parliament in what started as disputes over new taxes and ended up in a deadly clash

Tim – Geoffrey Palmer’s speech we carried on Newsroom: NZ is an executive paradise, not democratic paradise

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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon doesn’t care if you say a policy works or doesn’t work – he’s damned well going to get on with it anyway.

The Raw Politics team this week examines the Prime Minister’s exasperation with calls for ‘evidence’ to back his policies, and his need for momentum on law and order policies, from boot camps and beat cops to three strikes.

The panel of Newsroom political editor Laura Walters, senior political reporter Marc Daalder and co-editor Tim Murphy also goes looking for answers and any stashes of billions of dollars to solve the Cook Strait ferries dilemma.

And we ask who would be happy with this week’s 1 News Verian poll, a post-Budget survey that finds almost all the parties right back where they were on election night.

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