"In the end, nearly everyone I went to school with in a very working class part of England voted for Leave. Everyone I went to university with voted to Remain."
Josie joined Bill Ralston and Larry Williams on The Huddle to the UK’s Brexit vote, plea-bargaining, the Auckland rail link to the airport, and the Shewan inquiry into foreign trust disclosure rules.
I was sitting with the Prime Minister of Sweden and his counterpart from Albania in a room with about 150 centre-left political leaders and analysts as we tried to understand why Britain is thinking of leaving the EU. We were in Stockholm, at a Progressive Governance conference - a kind of lefty-Davos. Josie in the NZ Herald.
Josie joined Janet Wilson and Larry Williams on The Huddle on Newstalk ZB as the Brexit vote goes down to the wire with a late surge for Remain. And proposals for a congestion charging traffic in Auckland.
Josie joined Mike Yardley and Larry Williams on The Huddle on Newstalk ZB to discuss calls for an organ donor register, calls to cap immigration at 15,000 and a new senior’s party being established.
Josie joined Trish Sherson and Larry Williams on the Huddle on Newstalk ZB and discussed the Progressive Governance conference she attended in Stockholm, Auckland’s housing - the government had a national housing policy statement. Want to solve Auckland’s housing issues next week? Tax it; A look at infrastructure bonds to pay for development; And debt to income ratios, which affect first home buyers even though they aren’t the cause of the housing affordability problem.