Luxon + Trump. Labour + capital gains tax. Te Pāti Māori = schism?

In his first face-to-face encounter with Donald Trump, Christopher Luxon has exchanged hair jokes and golf banter, shared a view on tarrifs and, unlike so many of his counterparts around the world, avoided public humiliation. Does that, when combined with political developments at home, mean that back-on-track level has at last been achieved?

In the latest installation of the Spinoff’s politics podcast Gone By Lunchtime, Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee-Mather and Ben Thomas deliver their verdicts on the latest from the prime minister’s travels in Asia, Winston Peters’s woke obsesssion with pronouns (geopolitically speaking) and Labour at last solving the challenge of how to define the capital gains tax it will take to the next election – by defining it as: three free GP visits for all.

Plus: is Te Pāti Māori on the brink of a schism as a vote is taken to suspend Mariameno Kapa-Kingi? And Vale Jim Bolger, who has died at the age of 90.

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