Josie joined Phil O'Reilly and Andrew Dickens on the Huddle. The Migrant Association is under fire for their stunt where they guillotined an effigy of Winston Peters.

Josie joined Ryan Bridge and Trish Sherson to discuss Christopher Luxon ruling out working with the Opportunity Party after the election, and the Green Party calling for a moratorium on data centres.

The first thing the UK’s new Labour prime minister has done is remove their GST-equivalent from electricity, which will bring power prices down. That’s a win for his first exam question as leader: are you doing the things that voters say are the things?

No.1 issue in the UK and New Zealand is the rising cost of things you can’t do without; petrol, electricity, food. Andy Burnham promises a “cost of living government”.

Contrast that with National’s ads attacking Labour on tax. Negative, hard to read, and only indirectly to do with prices.

Josie's column on what New Zealand can learn from the UK is here.

Josie joined Heather du Plessis-Allan and Trish Sherson on the Huddle to discuss election policy announcements from NZ First and Greens on energy.

Josie joined Andrew Dickens and Trish Sherson on Newstalk ZB's the Huddle and discussed MPs' superannuation and the passing of Sam Neill.