One month to election day, and less than a week till the first big debate.

Move over Fast Eddie. With the first leaders’ debate less than a week away, is the National leader about to stage an epic hustle?

Ben Thomas, Annabelle Lee-Mather and Toby Manhire tackle this pressing question in the latest edition of the Spinoff politics podcast, and ask: As a trio of economists suggests there’s a missing half-billion a year in National’s plan to introduce a foreign buyer property tax offer, will that prickly question tip into the wider public consciousness? And can is too late to help Chris Hipkins anyway, as a succession of polls that put them in the 20s?

Plus: how is the energy on the campaign trail, do the numbers of the Prefu change things, and why Winston Peters’ claim that Māori are not indigenous to New Zealand amount to much more than a quirky academic exercise.

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